How does your town’s property tax allocation compare to the state average?
How does your town's property tax allocation compare to the state average?

I’ve often received the question: how does our town’s property tax compare to the state average? Using the most recently available 2021 statewide data (from the Division of Local Government Services here), I put that visual together below. When viewing ...
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Interactive tools to learn about school tax increase in Jersey City
Interactive tools to learn about school tax increase in Jersey City

The Jersey City Board of Education increased the school tax levy...now what? I'm getting that question from more than a few people so I figured I'd share two tools: A school tax calculator - view an estimate of how your ...
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See how your property tax bill is computed
See how your property tax bill is computed

Let’s take a look at how a tax bill comes together. It’s an interesting and empowering exercise to tie your local government budgets – and the property taxes needed to fund them – to your personal property tax. Every year, ...
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Garden State Property Tax Viewer – Rates, Levies, Bases – for 2020
Garden State Property Tax Viewer - Rates, Levies, Bases - for 2020

How does my town's tax rate compare to the state average? Where does most of my property tax go - the city, the county, or the schools?  How much is my town's taxable real estate ("ratables") worth? These are all ...
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CivicParent NJ Property Tax Viewer: 2020 Levies
CivicParent NJ Property Tax Viewer: 2020 Levies

The 2020 property tax tables for calendar year 2020 are now available. This data provides insight into the way municipal, county, and local public school governments share the total tax dollars each year. The dataset at the link contains: Tax ...
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CivicParent NJ Property Tax Viewer – 2019 Levies
CivicParent NJ Property Tax Viewer - 2019 Levies

Last month (October 2020) the state published the 2019 property tax tables. This is a “look back” at the local property tax landscape in New Jersey. It’s a wonderful treasure trove of public data from municipal, county, and local public ...
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Jersey City School Tax Expense Calculator for 2020/21 School Funding Year
Jersey City School Tax Expense Calculator for 2020/21 School Funding Year

I am part of the education team with Jersey City Together and in May 2020 we created a school tax expense calculator to help Jersey City residents understand the personal investment for a $50 million increase to the school levy.  ...
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Jersey City’s 2019/20 Proposed Budget: Visualized APPROPRIATIONS (Expenses)
Jersey City's 2019/20 Proposed Budget: Visualized APPROPRIATIONS (Expenses)

Every municipality must pay for services that are then consumed by its residents. These services include: Police force (eg the JCPD) Fire department Road maintenance for city roads (a note on roads...in Jersey City, Ocean Avenue, Eerie Street, and Manhattan ...
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How does Jersey City Spend Its Money? A Data Visualization of Budgets from 2015-2018
How does Jersey City Spend Its Money? A Data Visualization of Budgets from 2015-2018

As we look towards the coming weeks and months, two local governing bodies are undergoing a public budgeting process: The Board of Education will be determining the 2019/20 schools budget. The city of Jersey City will be determining the 2019 ...
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NJ Property Tax Dashboard | #OpenData #DataViz
NJ Property Tax Dashboard | #OpenData #DataViz

This is a property tax dashboard for NJ residents who may be interested in learning about the property tax profile of their municipality, including: 1) Latest available (Tax Year 2017) property tax metrics available from NJ’s Property Tax portal. 2) ...
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