Kingwood Twp NJ property tax rate 2025: 2.606 after reassessment
Kingwood Twp, Hunterdon County. 2,345 parcels in the MOD-IV 2026 file. Rate shown is tax year 2025 (latest available — not yet matched to assessment year).
2026 revaluation/reassessment town — 2026 general tax rate not in our warehouse yet. Showing 2025 rate against 2026 assessments; YoY % is withheld until the matching rate posts.
Kingwood Twp at a glance
2,345 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 2.606, and the prior rate on file is 2.521 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $581,173. Usable sales with a 2024 deed: 34, median $532,500. The state construction file lists 905 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1983. 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 Kingwood Twp bill
Kingwood Twp’s general rate of 2.606 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 2.521 for 2024. This municipality is on the 2026 reassessment list, so the rate move is the roll being reset. It is not, by itself, the change in the bill. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 66.3%, 19.4%, and 14.3%. The largest slice is schools. In Hunterdon County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 66.1% in Califon Boro. Class 2 net assessments changed from $441,280,800 to $697,988,400, up 58.2%, on 1,201 parcels. Usable sales with a 2024 deed: median $532,500 (34 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 67.2%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Kingwood Twp
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 905 permits in Kingwood 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 Kingwood Twp construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Kingwood Twp: 2.606
This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.
In Hunterdon County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 66.1%; this town is 66.3%. 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 Hunterdon towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Kingwood Twp (K-8 or K-6 local), FY2027 K–12 aid $922,976. The high school district is Delaware Valley Regional, FY2027 K–12 aid $1,480,490. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Hunterdon district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 2.521.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Kingwood Twp
These figures use Kingwood 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 73.00% would be assessed at about $365,000. At the general rate of 2.606, the estimated tax is $9,512. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $146,000, with an estimated tax of $3,805.
In Hunterdon County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $6,061 in Glen Gardner Boro to $17,446 in Hampton Boro. The middle bill is $11,003 in Lebanon Twp. All Hunterdon towns.
See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.
Recent usable sales in Kingwood Twp
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Kingwood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 364 OAK GROVE ROAD | 12/17/2025 | $571,000 | $621,100 |
| 626 COUNTY ROAD 519 | 12/10/2025 | $527,000 | $470,000 |
| 108 FITZER ROAD | 11/13/2025 | $600,000 | $703,500 |
| 489 BYRAM-KINGWOOD ROAD | 10/31/2025 | $505,000 | $427,100 |
| 6 HAMPTON ROAD | 10/29/2025 | $525,000 | $526,800 |
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 Kingwood Twp: $45,610
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Kingwood Twp is $45,610 at 123 BYRAM-KINGWOOD ROAD, on a net assessment of $1,750,200 and a 2025 general rate of 2.606.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 BYRAM-KINGWOOD ROAD | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,750,200 | 2025 | $45,610 |
| 140 HORSESHOE BEND ROAD | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,413,100 | 2025 | $36,825 |
| 317 RIDGE ROAD | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,356,900 | 2025 | $35,361 |
| 19 TUMBLE FALLS ROAD | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,328,700 | 2025 | $34,626 |
| 363 BYRAM-KINGWOOD ROAD | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,324,600 | 2025 | $34,519 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Kingwood Twp is $178,480 at 500 BARBERTOWN-PT BREEZE, on a net assessment of $6,848,800 and a 2025 general rate of 2.606.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 BARBERTOWN-PT BREEZE | 4B — Industrial | $6,848,800 | 2025 | $178,480 |
| 843 STATE HIGHWAY 12 | 4A — Commercial | $5,786,000 | 2025 | $150,783 |
| KINGWOOD TWP | 4A — Commercial | $5,250,000 | 2025 | $136,815 |
| 847 STATE HIGHWAY 12 | 4B — Industrial | $4,197,000 | 2025 | $109,374 |
| 869 STATE HIGHWAY 12 | 4B — Industrial | $3,811,400 | 2025 | $99,325 |
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 Kingwood Twp, typical class 2 assessment $581,173
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 1,201 parcels, average net assessment $581,173.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $441,280,800 to $697,988,400, up 58.2%, on 1,201 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the reassessment roll. It is not the change in the tax bill.
Among 34 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2024, the median price is $532,500. 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 | 1,201 | $697,988,400 | 67.2% |
| Vacant land 1 | 252 | $73,478,400 | 7.1% |
| Commercial 4A | 55 | $51,259,600 | 4.9% |
| Industrial 4B | 5 | $15,964,900 | 1.5% |
| Apartment 4C | 2 | $1,024,000 | 0.1% |
| Farm (regular) 3A | 297 | $193,542,000 | 18.6% |
| Farm (qualified) 3B | 532 | $6,127,100 | 0.6% |
| Other / unclassified other | 1 | $0 | 0.0% |
Housing stock in Kingwood Twp, median year built 1983
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Kingwood Twp with a year built have a median year of 1983, about 43 years old. Of those 1,173 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 51.2%, Farm (qualified) 22.7%, Farm (regular) 12.7%, Vacant land 10.7%, Commercial 2.3%, Industrial 0.2%, Apartment <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.