Medford Lakes Boro NJ property tax rate 2025: 4.023

Medford Lakes Boro, Burlington County. 1,657 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.

Medford Lakes Boro at a glance

1,657 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 4.023, and the prior rate on file is 3.802 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $291,261. Usable sales with a 2024 deed: 34, median $507,000. The state construction file lists 1,418 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1959. 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 Medford Lakes Boro bill

Medford Lakes Boro’s general rate of 4.023 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 3.802 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 65.4%, 14.2%, and 20.3%. The largest slice is schools. In Burlington County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 63.6% in New Hanover Twp. Class 2 net assessments changed from $443,866,000 to $444,755,300, up 0.2%, on 1,527 parcels. Usable sales with a 2024 deed: median $507,000 (34 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 93.2%. State school aid is outside these bars.

Building permits in Medford Lakes Boro

The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 1,418 permits in Medford Lakes 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 Medford Lakes Boro construction office.

2025 general tax rate in Medford Lakes Boro: 4.023

This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.

Schools
65.4%
County
14.2%
Municipal
20.3%

In Burlington County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 63.6%; this town is 65.4%. 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 Burlington towns · How NJ taxes work.

The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Medford Lakes Boro (K-8 or K-6 local), FY2027 K–12 aid $1,290,990. The high school district is Lenape Regional, FY2027 K–12 aid $19,465,656. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Burlington district table.

Prior year (2024) general rate: 3.802.

Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Medford Lakes Boro

These figures use Medford Lakes 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 60.74% would be assessed at about $303,700. At the general rate of 4.023, the estimated tax is $12,218. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $121,480, with an estimated tax of $4,887.

In Burlington County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $7,923 in Bass River Twp to $15,954 in Beverly City. The middle bill is $11,159 in Mansfield Twp. All Burlington towns.

See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.

Recent usable sales in Medford Lakes Boro

These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Medford Lakes 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
143 ATSION ROAD 9/29/2025 $490,000 $282,600
22 COCHISE CIR 9/26/2025 $580,000 $342,000
122 LENAPE TRAIL 9/26/2025 $435,000 $235,800
64 MOHAVE TRAIL 9/1/2025 $455,000 $213,400
413 TABERNACLE ROAD 7/30/2025 $450,000 $235,400

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 Medford Lakes Boro: $32,731

Residential

The highest residential estimate in Medford Lakes Boro is $32,731 at 147 STOKES ROAD, on a net assessment of $813,600 and a 2025 general rate of 4.023.

Address Class Net assessment Rate year Estimated tax
147 STOKES ROAD 2 — Residential (four families or less) $813,600 2025 $32,731
164 CHIPPEWA TRAIL 2 — Residential (four families or less) $762,000 2025 $30,655
283 CHICAGAMI TRAIL 2 — Residential (four families or less) $703,800 2025 $28,314
26 SHINNECOCK TRAIL 2 — Residential (four families or less) $702,100 2025 $28,245
133 STOKES ROAD 2 — Residential (four families or less) $700,000 2025 $28,161

Business

The highest business estimate in Medford Lakes Boro is $71,243 at 70 OAK & 188 TABERNACLE, on a net assessment of $1,770,900 and a 2025 general rate of 4.023.

Address Class Net assessment Rate year Estimated tax
70 OAK & 188 TABERNACLE 4A — Commercial $1,770,900 2025 $71,243
61 STOKES RD 4A — Commercial $1,722,800 2025 $69,308
2 STOKES ROAD 4A — Commercial $551,500 2025 $22,187
20-30 TRADING POST 4A — Commercial $435,000 2025 $17,500
6 STOKES ROAD 4A — Commercial $328,400 2025 $13,212

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 Medford Lakes Boro, typical class 2 assessment $291,261

Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 1,527 parcels, average net assessment $291,261.

How assessments changed

Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $443,866,000 to $444,755,300, up 0.2%, on 1,527 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.

Among 34 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2024, the median price is $507,000. 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.

ClassParcelsNet assessed% of net
Residential 2 1,527 $444,755,300 93.2%
Vacant land 1 115 $25,566,900 5.4%
Commercial 4A 15 $6,904,000 1.4%

Housing stock in Medford Lakes Boro, median year built 1959

On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Medford Lakes Boro with a year built have a median year of 1959, about 67 years old. Of those 1,524 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 92.2%, Vacant land 6.9%, Commercial 0.9%. Those percentages are a count of parcels, not a share of tax dollars. The class table uses the tax-base share.

Year built

Before 1940
12.3%
1940–1959
40.7%
1960–1979
42.5%
1980–1999
2.4%
2000–2009
1.2%
2010–2026
0.9%

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.

One-family
824 54.0%
Two-family
7 0.5%
Other codes
694 45.5%

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