Boonton Twp NJ property tax rate 2025: 2.538
Boonton Twp, Morris County. 1,847 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.
Boonton Twp at a glance
1,847 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 2.538, and the prior rate on file is 2.506 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $533,155. Usable sales with a 2022 deed: 42, median $683,500. The state construction file lists 2,242 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1966. 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 Boonton Twp bill
Boonton Twp’s general rate of 2.538 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 2.506 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 67.8%, 12.2%, and 20.1%. The largest slice is schools. In Morris County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 62.9% in Netcong Boro. Class 2 net assessments changed from $805,976,000 to $810,929,100, up 0.6%, on 1,519 parcels. Usable sales with a 2022 deed: median $683,500 (42 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 86.4%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Boonton Twp
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 2,242 permits in Boonton 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 Boonton Twp construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Boonton Twp: 2.538
This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.
In Morris County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 62.9%; this town is 67.8%. 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 Morris towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Boonton Twp (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $1,056,303. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Morris district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 2.506.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Boonton Twp
These figures use Boonton 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 77.68% would be assessed at about $388,400. At the general rate of 2.538, the estimated tax is $9,858. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $155,360, with an estimated tax of $3,943.
In Morris County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $4,917 in Harding Twp to $14,240 in Netcong Boro. The middle bill is $9,881 in Chester Boro. All Morris towns.
See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.
Recent usable sales in Boonton Twp
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Boonton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 MILLER DR | 12/11/2025 | $981,100 | $765,700 |
| 8 SCHINDLER CT | 10/30/2025 | $662,500 | $497,800 |
| 877 BOONTON AVE | 10/29/2025 | $728,000 | $420,900 |
| 68 NORTH RD | 9/26/2025 | $204,000 | $288,500 |
| 2 ROSEWOOD LN | 7/28/2025 | $412,817 | $260,900 |
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 Boonton Twp: $55,163
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Boonton Twp is $55,163 at 98 MEYER FARM RD, on a net assessment of $2,173,500 and a 2025 general rate of 2.538.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98 MEYER FARM RD | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $2,173,500 | 2025 | $55,163 |
| 3 BOULDER CT | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,885,900 | 2025 | $47,864 |
| 19 OLD TIMBER TRL | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,877,300 | 2025 | $47,646 |
| 22 OLD TIMBER TRL | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,801,500 | 2025 | $45,722 |
| 3 QUAIL RUN | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,775,000 | 2025 | $45,050 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Boonton Twp is $266,490 at 130 POWERVILLE RD, on a net assessment of $10,500,000 and a 2025 general rate of 2.538.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 POWERVILLE RD | 4A — Commercial | $10,500,000 | 2025 | $266,490 |
| 199 POWERVILLE RD | 4A — Commercial | $7,901,600 | 2025 | $200,543 |
| 411 ROCKAWAY VALLEY RD | 4B — Industrial | $4,190,000 | 2025 | $106,342 |
| 355 POWERVILLE RD | 4B — Industrial | $3,923,100 | 2025 | $99,568 |
| 301 ROCKAWAY VALLEY RD | 4B — Industrial | $2,019,000 | 2025 | $51,242 |
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 Boonton Twp, typical class 2 assessment $533,155
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 1,521 parcels, average net assessment $533,155.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $805,976,000 to $810,929,100, up 0.6%, on 1,519 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 42 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2022, the median price is $683,500. 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 | 1,521 | $810,929,100 | 86.4% |
| Vacant land 1 | 213 | $66,818,200 | 7.1% |
| Commercial 4A | 12 | $24,540,900 | 2.6% |
| Industrial 4B | 7 | $12,342,400 | 1.3% |
| Farm (regular) 3A | 39 | $23,460,600 | 2.5% |
| Farm (qualified) 3B | 54 | $237,700 | 0.0% |
| Other / unclassified other | 1 | $0 | 0.0% |
Housing stock in Boonton Twp, median year built 1966
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Boonton Twp with a year built have a median year of 1966, about 60 years old. Of those 1,505 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 82.3%, Vacant land 11.5%, Farm (qualified) 2.9%, Farm (regular) 2.1%, Commercial 0.6%, Industrial 0.4%, 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.