Carteret Boro NJ property tax rate 2025: 1.568
Carteret Boro, Middlesex County. 5,899 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.
Carteret Boro at a glance
5,899 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 1.568, and the prior rate on file is 3.188 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $522,405. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 93, median $529,999. The state construction file lists 4,300 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1953. 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 Carteret Boro bill
Carteret Boro’s general rate of 1.568 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 3.188 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 33.1%, 19.7%, and 47.2%. The largest slice is municipal. In Middlesex County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 54.6% in South Plainfield Boro. Class 2 net assessments changed from $2,682,306,000 to $2,682,897,700, 0.0%, on 5,135 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $529,999 (93 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 39.1%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Carteret Boro
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 4,300 permits in Carteret 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 Carteret Boro construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Carteret Boro: 1.568
This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.
In Middlesex County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 54.6%; this town is 33.1%. 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 Middlesex towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Carteret Boro (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $59,456,835. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Middlesex district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 3.188.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Carteret Boro
These figures use Carteret 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 58.99% would be assessed at about $294,950. At the general rate of 1.568, the estimated tax is $4,625. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $117,980, with an estimated tax of $1,850.
In Middlesex County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $4,625 in Carteret Boro to $13,615 in Highland Park Boro. The middle bill is $10,575 in New Brunswick City. All Middlesex towns.
See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.
Recent usable sales in Carteret Boro
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Carteret 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 HOLLY ST | 12/22/2025 | $440,000 | $481,700 |
| 4 SOMERSET STREET | 12/19/2025 | $532,000 | $429,100 |
| 10 VAN BUREN AVE | 12/12/2025 | $548,000 | $583,200 |
| 89 SHAROT STREET | 12/10/2025 | $800,000 | $776,400 |
| 613 ROOSEVELT AVE | 12/5/2025 | $425,000 | $392,400 |
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 Carteret Boro: $19,569
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Carteret Boro is $19,569 at 295-297 A&B PERSHING AVE, on a net assessment of $1,248,000 and a 2025 general rate of 1.568.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 295-297 A&B PERSHING AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,248,000 | 2025 | $19,569 |
| 2 PINE ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,211,700 | 2025 | $18,999 |
| 115-117 EMERSON ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,194,800 | 2025 | $18,734 |
| 137 ROOSEVELT AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,162,100 | 2025 | $18,222 |
| 17-A JACKSON AVENUE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,113,200 | 2025 | $17,455 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Carteret Boro is $3,085,408 at LAFAYETTE STREET, on a net assessment of $196,773,500 and a 2025 general rate of 1.568.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAFAYETTE STREET | 4B — Industrial | $196,773,500 | 2025 | $3,085,408 |
| 380 MIDDLESEX AVE. | 4B — Industrial | $168,548,983 | 2025 | $2,642,848 |
| 1300 FEDERAL BLVD. | 4B — Industrial | $121,980,600 | 2025 | $1,912,656 |
| 4000 INDUSTRIAL AVE. | 4B — Industrial | $90,690,000 | 2025 | $1,422,019 |
| 760 PORT CARTERET DRIVE | 4B — Industrial | $87,596,000 | 2025 | $1,373,505 |
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 Carteret Boro, typical class 2 assessment $522,405
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 5,136 parcels, average net assessment $522,405.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $2,682,306,000 to $2,682,897,700, 0.0%, on 5,135 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 93 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $529,999. 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 | 5,136 | $2,683,071,400 | 39.1% |
| Vacant land 1 | 514 | $1,410,669,900 | 20.6% |
| Commercial 4A | 109 | $353,984,700 | 5.2% |
| Industrial 4B | 91 | $2,170,782,783 | 31.6% |
| Apartment 4C | 28 | $230,660,500 | 3.4% |
| Other / unclassified other | 21 | $13,075,000 | 0.2% |
Housing stock in Carteret Boro, median year built 1953
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Carteret Boro with a year built have a median year of 1953, about 73 years old. Of those 5,134 houses, the largest share was built 1940–1959. This is the assessor’s year built. It is not a ranking of towns.
By parcel count, Residential 87.1%, Vacant land 8.7%, Commercial 1.8%, Industrial 1.5%, Apartment 0.5%, Other / unclassified 0.4%. 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.