Cliffside Park Boro NJ property tax rate 2025: 2.836
Cliffside Park Boro, Bergen County. 7,537 parcels in the MOD-IV 2026 file. Rate shown is tax year 2025 (latest available — not yet matched to assessment year).
Assessments are tax year 2026; latest published general rate we have is 2025. Estimate uses that rate until the 2026 rate is loaded.
Cliffside Park Boro at a glance
7,537 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 2.836, and the prior rate on file is 2.756 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $381,862. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 193, median $675,000. The state construction file lists 5,213 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1974. A property page adds that parcel’s permits, flood zone, mapped flood elevation, and high and low ground. Owner names are not shown.
How to read a Cliffside Park Boro bill
Cliffside Park Boro’s general rate of 2.836 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 2.756 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 46.1%, 12.2%, and 41.8%. The largest slice is schools. In Bergen County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 57.5% in Hasbrouck Hghts Boro. Class 2 net assessments changed from $2,610,513,600 to $2,620,483,400, up 0.4%, on 6,861 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $675,000 (193 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 78.9%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Cliffside Park Boro
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 5,213 permits in Cliffside Park Boro. This file is a full record from 2021 on. Older permits are mostly missing. Work from before then can be missing here and still be at the Cliffside Park Boro construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Cliffside Park Boro: 2.836
This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.
In Bergen County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 57.5%; this town is 46.1%. The largest slice here is schools. State school aid is not in these bars — it reduces the school levy before the rate is struck. All Bergen towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Cliffside Park Boro (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $11,026,763. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Bergen district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 2.756.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Cliffside Park Boro
These figures use Cliffside Park Boro’s own ratio and general rate. How the same sale price is calculated for every town. This is not an appraisal and not a collector bill.
2025
A $500,000 sale at the 2025 ratio of 68.46% would be assessed at about $342,300. At the general rate of 2.836, the estimated tax is $9,708. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $136,920, with an estimated tax of $3,883.
In Bergen County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $3,974 in Alpine Boro to $13,038 in Ridgefield Park Village. The middle bill is $9,734 in Maywood Boro. All Bergen towns.
See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.
Recent usable sales in Cliffside Park Boro
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Cliffside Park Boro. A $1 deed and a non-usable SR1A sale are left out. Each parcel stores one sale, so this is not every deed recorded in town.
| Address | Deed date | Sale price | Net assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 273 KNOX AVE | 12/3/2025 | $900,000 | $410,500 |
| 108 SUMMIT TERRACE | 11/26/2025 | $995,000 | $557,700 |
| 200 WINSTON DR-C1007 | 11/20/2025 | $440,000 | $316,500 |
| 100 CARLYLE DRIVE-CN12D | 11/17/2025 | $645,812 | $507,300 |
| 406 COLUMBIA AVE | 11/14/2025 | $550,000 | $300,000 |
Owner names are not shown. The rate year and the assessment file year differ, so this table does not print an estimated tax. This is not a collector’s bill.
Highest estimated tax in Cliffside Park Boro: $84,822
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Cliffside Park Boro is $84,822 at 14 EDGEWATER ROAD, on a net assessment of $2,990,900 and a 2025 general rate of 2.836.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 EDGEWATER ROAD | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $2,990,900 | 2025 | $84,822 |
| 600 HILLTOP TERRACE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,972,900 | 2025 | $55,951 |
| 351 ESPLANADE PLACE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,874,800 | 2025 | $53,169 |
| 6 COLUMBIA AVENUE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,851,700 | 2025 | $52,514 |
| 2 FOX TERRACE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,803,000 | 2025 | $51,133 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Cliffside Park Boro is $403,795 at 305 PALISADE AVE, on a net assessment of $14,238,200 and a 2025 general rate of 2.836.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 305 PALISADE AVE | 4A — Commercial | $14,238,200 | 2025 | $403,795 |
| 700 PALISADIUM DRIVE | 4A — Commercial | $10,000,000 | 2025 | $283,600 |
| 596 ANDERSON AVENUE | 4A — Commercial | $5,000,000 | 2025 | $141,800 |
| PALISADIUM DRIVE | 4A — Commercial | $4,000,000 | 2025 | $113,440 |
| 705 ANDERSON AVENUE | 4A — Commercial | $3,690,500 | 2025 | $104,663 |
Owner names are not shown. Every parcel in this town uses the same rate, so the highest tax is the highest assessment. Commercial and industrial parcels (class 4A and 4B) are the business list. Apartment buildings are class 4C and are not in that list. This is not a collector’s bill.
Ratable base in Cliffside Park Boro, typical class 2 assessment $381,862
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 6,910 parcels, average net assessment $381,862.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $2,610,513,600 to $2,620,483,400, up 0.4%, on 6,861 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 193 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $675,000. A $1 deed and a non-usable SR1A sale are left out. Each parcel stores one sale, so this is not every deed recorded that year.
Share of net assessed value by property class (MOD-IV). Not a school-quality rating.
| Class | Parcels | Net assessed | % of net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential 2 | 6,910 | $2,638,667,900 | 78.9% |
| Vacant land 1 | 228 | $260,166,000 | 7.8% |
| Commercial 4A | 234 | $177,019,700 | 5.3% |
| Industrial 4B | 4 | $3,927,500 | 0.1% |
| Apartment 4C | 160 | $263,118,500 | 7.9% |
| Other / unclassified other | 1 | $639 | 0.0% |
Housing stock in Cliffside Park Boro, median year built 1974
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Cliffside Park Boro with a year built have a median year of 1974, about 52 years old. Of those 6,338 houses, the largest share was built 1960–1979. This is the assessor’s year built. It is not a ranking of towns.
By parcel count, Residential 91.7%, Commercial 3.1%, Vacant land 3.0%, Apartment 2.1%, Industrial <0.1%, Other / unclassified <0.1%. Those percentages are a count of parcels, not a share of tax dollars. The class table uses the tax-base share.
Year built
Assessor building line
Grouped from the assessor’s building abbreviation. One-family, two-family, and condo are the codes that read clearly. Other codes stay in their own group. This is not a bedroom count, and square feet are left off because most records do not include them.