Cape May Point Boro NJ property tax rate 2025: 0.766
Cape May Point Boro, Cape May County. 718 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.
Cape May Point Boro at a glance
718 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 0.766, and the prior rate on file is 0.740 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $757,713. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 14, median $1,425,000. The state construction file lists 387 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1980. 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 Cape May Point Boro bill
Cape May Point Boro’s general rate of 0.766 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 0.740 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 2.7%, 49.6%, and 47.7%. The largest slice is county. In Cape May County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 26.0% in Wildwood Crest Boro. Class 2 net assessments changed from $477,984,700 to $486,451,700, up 1.8%, on 642 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $1,425,000 (14 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 88.7%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Cape May Point Boro
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 387 permits in Cape May Point 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 Cape May Point Boro construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Cape May Point Boro: 0.766
This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.
In Cape May County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 26.0%; this town is 2.7%. The largest slice here is county. State school aid is not in these bars — it reduces the school levy before the rate is struck. All Cape May towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Cape May Point (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $853. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Cape May district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 0.740.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Cape May Point Boro
These figures use Cape May Point 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 54.27% would be assessed at about $271,350. At the general rate of 0.766, the estimated tax is $2,079. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $108,540, with an estimated tax of $831.
In Cape May County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $1,745 in Avalon Boro to $7,929 in Wildwood City. The middle bill is $4,330 in Wildwood Crest Boro. All Cape May towns.
See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.
Recent usable sales in Cape May Point Boro
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Cape May Point 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 202 OCEAN AVE | 11/12/2025 | $710,000 | $261,100 |
| 708 CAPE AVE | 10/3/2025 | $1,350,000 | $599,400 |
| 408 PRINCETON AVE | 9/26/2025 | $1,326,130 | $515,400 |
| 304 ALEXANDER AVE | 9/2/2025 | $1,925,000 | $748,600 |
| 804 CAPE AVE | 8/15/2025 | $1,500,000 | $941,500 |
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 Cape May Point Boro: $16,388
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Cape May Point Boro is $16,388 at 204 LINCOLN AVE, on a net assessment of $2,139,400 and a 2025 general rate of 0.766.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 204 LINCOLN AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $2,139,400 | 2025 | $16,388 |
| 101 HARVARD AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $2,130,000 | 2025 | $16,316 |
| 100 LEHIGH AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,937,100 | 2025 | $14,838 |
| 324 ALEXANDER AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,822,600 | 2025 | $13,961 |
| 218 ALEXANDER AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,734,900 | 2025 | $13,289 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Cape May Point Boro is $6,261 at 500 CAPE AVE, on a net assessment of $817,400 and a 2025 general rate of 0.766.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 CAPE AVE | 4A — Commercial | $817,400 | 2025 | $6,261 |
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 Cape May Point Boro, typical class 2 assessment $757,713
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 642 parcels, average net assessment $757,713.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $477,984,700 to $486,451,700, up 1.8%, on 642 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 14 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $1,425,000. 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 | 642 | $486,451,700 | 88.7% |
| Vacant land 1 | 74 | $61,462,000 | 11.2% |
| Commercial 4A | 1 | $817,400 | 0.1% |
| Other / unclassified other | 1 | $0 | 0.0% |
Housing stock in Cape May Point Boro, median year built 1980
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Cape May Point Boro with a year built have a median year of 1980, about 46 years old. Of those 640 houses, the largest share was built 1980–1999. This is the assessor’s year built. It is not a ranking of towns.
By parcel count, Residential 89.4%, Vacant land 10.3%, Commercial 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.