New Milford Boro NJ property tax rate 2025: 2.178
New Milford Boro, Bergen County. 4,476 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.
New Milford Boro at a glance
4,476 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 2.178, and the prior rate on file is 4.035 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $643,338. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 74, median $695,000. The state construction file lists 4,306 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1952. 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 New Milford Boro bill
New Milford Boro’s general rate of 2.178 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 4.035 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 59.2%, 10.4%, and 30.4%. 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 $2,652,260,600 to $2,653,121,200, 0.0%, on 4,124 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $695,000 (74 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 77.7%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in New Milford Boro
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 4,306 permits in New Milford 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 New Milford Boro construction office.
2025 general tax rate in New Milford Boro: 2.178
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 59.2%. 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 New Milford Boro (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $3,825,227. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Bergen district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 4.035.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in New Milford Boro
These figures use New Milford 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 55.43% would be assessed at about $277,150. At the general rate of 2.178, the estimated tax is $6,036. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $110,860, with an estimated tax of $2,415.
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 New Milford Boro
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for New Milford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 227 MILFORD AVE | 11/6/2025 | $730,000 | $556,500 |
| 438 JAMES ST | 10/29/2025 | $635,000 | $584,200 |
| 595 DUKE RD | 10/20/2025 | $700,000 | $637,500 |
| 194 RIVER LANE | 10/17/2025 | $515,000 | $522,700 |
| 207 RIDGE ST | 10/15/2025 | $535,000 | $590,300 |
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 New Milford Boro: $52,285
Residential
The highest residential estimate in New Milford Boro is $52,285 at 1000 RIDGE CT, on a net assessment of $2,400,600 and a 2025 general rate of 2.178.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000 RIDGE CT | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $2,400,600 | 2025 | $52,285 |
| 284 RIDGE ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $2,089,700 | 2025 | $45,514 |
| 282 RIDGE ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,914,800 | 2025 | $41,704 |
| 354 VOMEL DR | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,696,000 | 2025 | $36,939 |
| U58 SHERIDAN CT | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,670,000 | 2025 | $36,373 |
Business
The highest business estimate in New Milford Boro is $549,196 at 250-270 RIVER ROAD, on a net assessment of $25,215,600 and a 2025 general rate of 2.178.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 250-270 RIVER ROAD | 4A — Commercial | $25,215,600 | 2025 | $549,196 |
| 800 RIVER RD | 4A — Commercial | $20,090,000 | 2025 | $437,560 |
| 830-880 RIVER RD | 4A — Commercial | $12,605,100 | 2025 | $274,539 |
| 356-370 RIVER RD | 4A — Commercial | $7,193,200 | 2025 | $156,668 |
| 132 HENLEY AVENUE | 4B — Industrial | $6,811,800 | 2025 | $148,361 |
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 New Milford Boro, typical class 2 assessment $643,338
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 4,125 parcels, average net assessment $643,338.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $2,652,260,600 to $2,653,121,200, 0.0%, on 4,124 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 74 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $695,000. 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 | 4,125 | $2,653,770,200 | 77.7% |
| Vacant land 1 | 238 | $278,258,200 | 8.2% |
| Commercial 4A | 90 | $160,154,200 | 4.7% |
| Industrial 4B | 2 | $7,670,100 | 0.2% |
| Apartment 4C | 20 | $313,395,700 | 9.2% |
| Other / unclassified other | 1 | $0 | 0.0% |
Housing stock in New Milford Boro, median year built 1952
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in New Milford Boro with a year built have a median year of 1952, about 74 years old. Of those 4,122 houses, the largest share was built 1940–1959. This is the assessor’s year built. It is not a ranking of towns.
By parcel count, Residential 92.2%, Vacant land 5.3%, Commercial 2.0%, Apartment 0.4%, 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.