Kearny Town NJ property tax rate 2025: 10.848
Kearny Town, Hudson County. 8,752 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.
Kearny Town at a glance
8,752 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 10.848, and the prior rate on file is 10.705 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $99,804. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 227, median $568,000. The state construction file lists 4,333 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1923. 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 Kearny Town bill
Kearny Town’s general rate of 10.848 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 10.705 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 47.2%, 17.7%, and 35.1%. The largest slice is schools. In Hudson County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 33.9% in Harrison Town. Class 2 net assessments changed from $709,637,250 to $712,429,951, up 0.4%, on 7,139 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $568,000 (227 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 43.4%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Kearny Town
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 4,333 permits in Kearny Town. 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 Kearny Town construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Kearny Town: 10.848
This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.
In Hudson County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 33.9%; this town is 47.2%. 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 Hudson towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Kearny Town (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $90,622,135. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Hudson district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 10.705.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Kearny Town
These figures use Kearny Town’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 18.59% would be assessed at about $92,950. At the general rate of 10.848, the estimated tax is $10,083. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $37,180, with an estimated tax of $4,033.
In Hudson County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $5,393 in Hoboken City to $12,211 in Guttenberg Town. The middle bill is $8,951 in West New York Town. All Hudson towns.
See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.
Recent usable sales in Kearny Town
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Kearny Town. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 ALEXANDER AVE | 1/5/2026 | $490,000 | $61,100 |
| 59 ROSE ST | 12/30/2025 | $580,000 | $98,900 |
| 245 BEECH ST | 12/29/2025 | $760,000 | $103,100 |
| 2 PEDEN TERR | 12/23/2025 | $460,000 | $90,700 |
| 440 FOREST ST | 12/22/2025 | $470,000 | $63,800 |
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 Kearny Town: $366,630
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Kearny Town is $366,630 at 196-230 PASSAIC AVE, on a net assessment of $3,379,700 and a 2025 general rate of 10.848.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 196-230 PASSAIC AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $3,379,700 | 2025 | $366,630 |
| 91 BEECH ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $773,400 | 2025 | $83,898 |
| 425 KEARNY AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $375,000 | 2025 | $40,680 |
| 688 PASSAIC AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $363,800 | 2025 | $39,465 |
| 29 OGDEN AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $245,900 | 2025 | $26,675 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Kearny Town is $2,060,426 at 100 CENTRAL AVE, on a net assessment of $18,993,600 and a 2025 general rate of 10.848.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 CENTRAL AVE | 4B — Industrial | $18,993,600 | 2025 | $2,060,426 |
| 220 PENNSYLVANIA AVE | 4B — Industrial | $15,095,900 | 2025 | $1,637,603 |
| CENTRAL AVE | 4B — Industrial | $13,036,500 | 2025 | $1,414,200 |
| 170 CENTRAL AVE | 4B — Industrial | $12,191,300 | 2025 | $1,322,512 |
| 850 NEWARK TPKE | 4B — Industrial | $11,000,000 | 2025 | $1,193,280 |
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 Kearny Town, typical class 2 assessment $99,804
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 7,141 parcels, average net assessment $99,804.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $709,637,250 to $712,429,951, up 0.4%, on 7,139 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 227 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $568,000. 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 | 7,141 | $712,701,951 | 43.4% |
| Vacant land 1 | 623 | $390,529,350 | 23.8% |
| Commercial 4A | 486 | $117,175,200 | 7.1% |
| Industrial 4B | 215 | $265,714,950 | 16.2% |
| Apartment 4C | 151 | $40,859,000 | 2.5% |
| Other / unclassified other | 136 | $114,654,659 | 7.0% |
Housing stock in Kearny Town, median year built 1923
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Kearny Town with a year built have a median year of 1923, about 103 years old. Of those 7,112 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 81.6%, Vacant land 7.1%, Commercial 5.6%, Industrial 2.5%, Apartment 1.7%, Other / unclassified 1.6%. 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.