Belleville Twp NJ property tax rate 2025: 4.157
Belleville Twp, Essex County. 9,739 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.
Belleville Twp at a glance
9,739 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 4.157, and the prior rate on file is 4.033 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $280,565. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 143, median $480,000. The state construction file lists 6,423 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1937. 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 Belleville Twp bill
Belleville Twp’s general rate of 4.157 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 4.033 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 39.8%, 13.0%, and 47.2%. The largest slice is municipal. In Essex County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 51.8% in Roseland Boro. Class 2 net assessments changed from $2,346,328,800 to $2,353,330,600, up 0.3%, on 8,358 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $480,000 (143 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 63.1%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Belleville Twp
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 6,423 permits in Belleville Twp. 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 Belleville Twp construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Belleville Twp: 4.157
This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.
In Essex County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 51.8%; this town is 39.8%. 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 Essex towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Belleville Town (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $67,268,777. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Essex district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 4.033.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Belleville Twp
These figures use Belleville Twp’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 65.61% would be assessed at about $328,050. At the general rate of 4.157, the estimated tax is $13,637. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $131,220, with an estimated tax of $5,455.
In Essex County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $5,760 in Irvington Twp to $18,991 in Orange City Twp. The middle bill is $10,516 in West Caldwell Twp. All Essex towns.
See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.
Recent usable sales in Belleville Twp
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Belleville Twp. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49-51 CARMER AVENUE | 12/31/2025 | $229,900 | $389,700 |
| 71 MOORE PLACE | 12/19/2025 | $315,000 | $333,400 |
| 66 CORTLANDT STREET | 12/1/2025 | $232,000 | $314,800 |
| 125 OVERLOOK AVENUE | 11/14/2025 | $490,000 | $221,500 |
| 32-34 MAIER STREET | 11/13/2025 | $580,000 | $310,000 |
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 Belleville Twp: $31,473
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Belleville Twp is $31,473 at 27-29 KING STREET, on a net assessment of $757,100 and a 2025 general rate of 4.157.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27-29 KING STREET | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $757,100 | 2025 | $31,473 |
| 18 HARRISON STREET | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $752,500 | 2025 | $31,281 |
| 35 BRIDGE STREET | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $671,500 | 2025 | $27,914 |
| 232 MILL STREET | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $668,200 | 2025 | $27,777 |
| 10 CUOZZO STREET | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $642,800 | 2025 | $26,721 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Belleville Twp is $602,765 at 520 BELLEVILLE AVE, on a net assessment of $14,500,000 and a 2025 general rate of 4.157.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 520 BELLEVILLE AVE | 4A — Commercial | $14,500,000 | 2025 | $602,765 |
| 25 MAIN STREET | 4B — Industrial | $12,976,200 | 2025 | $539,421 |
| 354-374 MAIN STREET | 4A — Commercial | $11,802,400 | 2025 | $490,626 |
| 1 FRANKLIN AVENUE | 4A — Commercial | $10,668,100 | 2025 | $443,473 |
| 720 WASHINGTON AVENUE | 4A — Commercial | $9,183,000 | 2025 | $381,737 |
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 Belleville Twp, typical class 2 assessment $280,565
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 8,391 parcels, average net assessment $280,565.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $2,346,328,800 to $2,353,330,600, up 0.3%, on 8,358 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 143 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $480,000. 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 | 8,391 | $2,354,218,500 | 63.1% |
| Vacant land 1 | 608 | $671,676,850 | 18.0% |
| Commercial 4A | 477 | $363,659,000 | 9.7% |
| Industrial 4B | 108 | $107,202,700 | 2.9% |
| Apartment 4C | 142 | $236,764,100 | 6.3% |
| Other / unclassified other | 13 | $0 | 0.0% |
Housing stock in Belleville Twp, median year built 1937
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Belleville Twp with a year built have a median year of 1937, about 89 years old. Of those 8,330 houses, the largest share was built Before 1940. This is the assessor’s year built. It is not a ranking of towns.
By parcel count, Residential 86.2%, Vacant land 6.2%, Commercial 4.9%, Apartment 1.5%, Industrial 1.1%, 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.