Hightstown Boro NJ property tax rate 2025: 5.109
Hightstown Boro, Mercer County. 1,749 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.
Hightstown Boro at a glance
1,749 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 5.109, and the prior rate on file is 4.903 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $216,808. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 41, median $437,000. The state construction file lists 1,918 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1950. 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 Hightstown Boro bill
Hightstown Boro’s general rate of 5.109 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 4.903 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 46.7%, 19.6%, and 33.7%. The largest slice is schools. In Mercer County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 54.8% in Hopewell Boro. Class 2 net assessments changed from $321,226,700 to $321,960,000, up 0.2%, on 1,485 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $437,000 (41 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 58.4%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Hightstown Boro
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 1,918 permits in Hightstown 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 Hightstown Boro construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Hightstown Boro: 5.109
This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.
In Mercer County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 54.8%; this town is 46.7%. 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 Mercer towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is East Windsor Regional (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $46,948,609. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Mercer district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 4.903.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Hightstown Boro
These figures use Hightstown 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 59.33% would be assessed at about $296,650. At the general rate of 5.109, the estimated tax is $15,156. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $118,660, with an estimated tax of $6,062.
In Mercer County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $10,408 in West Windsor Twp to $17,708 in Trenton City. The middle bill is $12,107 in Pennington Boro. All Mercer towns.
See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.
Recent usable sales in Hightstown Boro
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Hightstown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 108 ORCHARD AVE | 12/10/2025 | $615,000 | $228,900 |
| 26 POWELL COURT | 10/24/2025 | $320,000 | $150,800 |
| 156 SECOND AVE | 10/23/2025 | $175,000 | $203,700 |
| 311 SECOND AVE | 10/21/2025 | $429,000 | $175,300 |
| 110-112 PARK AVE | 10/17/2025 | $672,500 | $273,300 |
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 Hightstown Boro: $31,298
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Hightstown Boro is $31,298 at 201 E WARD ST, on a net assessment of $612,600 and a 2025 general rate of 5.109.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 E WARD ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $612,600 | 2025 | $31,298 |
| 238 S MAIN ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $517,700 | 2025 | $26,449 |
| 111 ORCHARD AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $481,500 | 2025 | $24,600 |
| 157 S MAIN ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $462,000 | 2025 | $23,604 |
| 301 E WARD ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $461,600 | 2025 | $23,583 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Hightstown Boro is $434,265 at 200 ETRA RD, on a net assessment of $8,500,000 and a 2025 general rate of 5.109.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 ETRA RD | 4A — Commercial | $8,500,000 | 2025 | $434,265 |
| MERCER ST | 4A — Commercial | $5,640,000 | 2025 | $288,148 |
| 118 STOCKTON ST | 4A — Commercial | $1,971,000 | 2025 | $100,698 |
| 105-119 FRANKLIN ST. | 4A — Commercial | $1,788,000 | 2025 | $91,349 |
| 399-413 MERCER ST | 4A — Commercial | $1,438,000 | 2025 | $73,467 |
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 Hightstown Boro, typical class 2 assessment $216,808
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 1,485 parcels, average net assessment $216,808.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $321,226,700 to $321,960,000, up 0.2%, on 1,485 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 41 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $437,000. 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 | 1,485 | $321,960,000 | 58.4% |
| Vacant land 1 | 159 | $160,254,400 | 29.1% |
| Commercial 4A | 92 | $51,293,600 | 9.3% |
| Industrial 4B | 5 | $4,374,800 | 0.8% |
| Apartment 4C | 7 | $13,373,200 | 2.4% |
| Other / unclassified other | 1 | $0 | 0.0% |
Housing stock in Hightstown Boro, median year built 1950
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Hightstown Boro with a year built have a median year of 1950, about 76 years old. Of those 1,471 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 84.9%, Vacant land 9.1%, Commercial 5.3%, Apartment 0.4%, Industrial 0.3%, 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.