Perth Amboy City NJ property tax rate 2025: 3.178
Perth Amboy City, Middlesex County. 9,422 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.
Perth Amboy City at a glance
9,422 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 3.178, and the prior rate on file is 3.017 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $250,882. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 106, median $467,500. The state construction file lists 6,096 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1929. 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 Perth Amboy City bill
Perth Amboy City’s general rate of 3.178 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 3.017 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 25.2%, 15.0%, and 59.7%. 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 $1,904,714,000 to $1,908,988,500, up 0.2%, on 7,608 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $467,500 (106 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 42.7%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Perth Amboy City
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 6,096 permits in Perth Amboy City. 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 Perth Amboy City construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Perth Amboy City: 3.178
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 25.2%. 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 Perth Amboy City (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $232,463,455. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Middlesex district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 3.017.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Perth Amboy City
These figures use Perth Amboy City’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 73.32% would be assessed at about $366,600. At the general rate of 3.178, the estimated tax is $11,651. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $146,640, with an estimated tax of $4,660.
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 Perth Amboy City
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Perth Amboy City. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 461 LAWRIE ST. | 11/25/2025 | $415,000 | $218,000 |
| 359 NEVILLE ST. | 11/21/2025 | $430,000 | $181,600 |
| 399 COMPTON AVE. | 11/14/2025 | $415,000 | $265,300 |
| 860 WOLFF ST. | 11/14/2025 | $250,000 | $139,300 |
| 434 LAWRENCE ST. UNIT 19 | 11/4/2025 | $225,000 | $126,100 |
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 Perth Amboy City: $19,964
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Perth Amboy City is $19,964 at 99 WATER ST., on a net assessment of $628,200 and a 2025 general rate of 3.178.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99 WATER ST. | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $628,200 | 2025 | $19,964 |
| 133 WATER ST. | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $610,000 | 2025 | $19,386 |
| 72 MADISON AVE. | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $597,300 | 2025 | $18,982 |
| 214 HIGH ST. | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $589,800 | 2025 | $18,744 |
| 106 HIGH ST. | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $585,700 | 2025 | $18,614 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Perth Amboy City is $2,480,966 at 1051 AMBOY AVE., on a net assessment of $78,066,900 and a 2025 general rate of 3.178.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1051 AMBOY AVE. | 4B — Industrial | $78,066,900 | 2025 | $2,480,966 |
| 380 MAURER RD. | 4B — Industrial | $50,010,700 | 2025 | $1,589,340 |
| 950 CONVERY BOULEVARD | 4B — Industrial | $40,280,100 | 2025 | $1,280,102 |
| 1200 STATE ST | 4B — Industrial | $39,125,900 | 2025 | $1,243,421 |
| 1 BUCKINGHAM AVE. | 4B — Industrial | $29,500,000 | 2025 | $937,510 |
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 Perth Amboy City, typical class 2 assessment $250,882
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 7,610 parcels, average net assessment $250,882.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $1,904,714,000 to $1,908,988,500, up 0.2%, on 7,608 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 106 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $467,500. 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 | 7,610 | $1,909,214,600 | 42.7% |
| Vacant land 1 | 670 | $1,095,777,100 | 24.5% |
| Commercial 4A | 818 | $470,653,100 | 10.5% |
| Industrial 4B | 94 | $578,967,300 | 12.9% |
| Apartment 4C | 189 | $415,023,000 | 9.3% |
| Other / unclassified other | 41 | $1,504,300 | 0.0% |
Housing stock in Perth Amboy City, median year built 1929
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Perth Amboy City with a year built have a median year of 1929, about 97 years old. Of those 7,567 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 80.8%, Commercial 8.7%, Vacant land 7.1%, Apartment 2.0%, Industrial 1.0%, 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.