Wildwood City NJ property tax rate 2025: 3.084
Wildwood City, Cape May County. 5,915 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.
How to read a Wildwood City bill
Wildwood City’s general rate of 3.084 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 3.001 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 34.0%, 13.1%, and 52.9%. The largest slice is municipal. 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 $970,075,100 to $979,095,800, up 0.9%, on 4,691 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $470,000 (179 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 58.5%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Wildwood City at a glance
5,915 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 3.084, and the prior rate on file is 3.001 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $208,804. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 179, median $470,000. The state construction file lists 3,383 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1978. The Census Bureau’s 2019–2023 American Community Survey counts 5,140 people and 6,619 housing units in Wildwood city. A property page adds that parcel’s permits, flood zone, mapped flood elevation, and high and low ground. It also says what soil the state mapped, whether the 2012 map shows a wetland, and whether the address is in the Pinelands, the Highlands, or the coastal zone. It names a historic district only when the address is inside one. Owner names are not shown.
The shape of the ground in Wildwood City
Wildwood City sits on the state’s 10-foot ground scan, from LiDAR flown between 2014 and 2019. The Cape May County page opens that scan as a hillshade you can pan and zoom. Darker cuts are lower. Lighter ground is higher. A property page in Wildwood City opens the same scan on that address. The lowest and highest 10-foot cell stay as numbers. The picture does not mark those two cells. It is not a survey and not a slope in degrees.
Building permits in Wildwood City
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 3,383 permits in Wildwood City. 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 Wildwood City construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Wildwood City: 3.084
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 34.0%. The largest slice here is municipal. 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 Wildwood City (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $1,335,960. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Cape May district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 3.001.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Wildwood City
These figures use Wildwood City’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 51.42% would be assessed at about $257,100. At the general rate of 3.084, the estimated tax is $7,929. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $102,840, with an estimated tax of $3,172.
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 Wildwood City
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Wildwood City. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5201 OCEAN AVE | 1/6/2026 | $340,000 | $187,600 |
| 145 E ANDREWS AVE #203 | 12/23/2025 | $400,000 | $183,500 |
| 240 W 26TH AVE | 12/15/2025 | $420,000 | $129,000 |
| 311 E WILDWOOD AVE #A | 12/10/2025 | $630,000 | $241,500 |
| 315 E WILDWOOD AVE #A | 12/5/2025 | $638,000 | $241,500 |
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 Wildwood City, 2025 rate: $28,764
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Wildwood City is $28,764 at 5304 LAKE RD, on a net assessment of $932,700 and a 2025 general rate of 3.084.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5304 LAKE RD | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $932,700 | 2025 | $28,764 |
| 501 W CRESSE AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $904,100 | 2025 | $27,882 |
| 328 W DOCK ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $845,500 | 2025 | $26,075 |
| 2900-2906 PACIFIC AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $774,100 | 2025 | $23,873 |
| 2908-2914 PACIFIC AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $774,100 | 2025 | $23,873 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Wildwood City is $257,039 at 3310 ATLANTIC AVE, on a net assessment of $8,334,600 and a 2025 general rate of 3.084.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3310 ATLANTIC AVE | 4A — Commercial | $8,334,600 | 2025 | $257,039 |
| 3501 BOARDWALK | 4A — Commercial | $7,850,000 | 2025 | $242,094 |
| 2600 BOARDWALK | 4A — Commercial | $5,699,000 | 2025 | $175,757 |
| 3400 ATLANTIC AVE | 4A — Commercial | $5,420,000 | 2025 | $167,153 |
| 3300 ATLANTIC AVE | 4A — Commercial | $4,625,000 | 2025 | $142,635 |
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 Wildwood City, typical class 2 assessment $208,804
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 4,765 parcels, average net assessment $208,804.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $970,075,100 to $979,095,800, up 0.9%, on 4,691 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 179 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $470,000. 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 | 4,765 | $994,950,100 | 58.5% |
| Vacant land 1 | 408 | $254,744,100 | 15.0% |
| Commercial 4A | 596 | $397,255,300 | 23.4% |
| Industrial 4B | 5 | $3,794,000 | 0.2% |
| Apartment 4C | 140 | $49,126,600 | 2.9% |
| Other / unclassified other | 1 | $0 | 0.0% |
Housing stock in Wildwood City, median year built 1978
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Wildwood City with a year built have a median year of 1978, about 48 years old. Of those 4,641 houses, the largest share was built 2000–2009. This is the assessor’s year built. It is not a ranking of towns.
By parcel count, Residential 80.6%, Commercial 10.1%, Vacant land 6.9%, Apartment 2.4%, 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.