Dover Town NJ property tax rate 2025: 3.490
Dover Town, Morris County. 4,437 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.
Dover Town at a glance
4,437 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 3.490, and the prior rate on file is 3.273 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $241,564. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 81, median $490,000. The state construction file lists 2,368 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1940. 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 Dover Town bill
Dover Town’s general rate of 3.490 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 3.273 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 43.0%, 9.9%, and 47.0%. The largest slice is municipal. In Morris County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 62.9% in Netcong Boro. Class 2 net assessments changed from $867,391,700 to $869,738,700, up 0.3%, on 3,585 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $490,000 (81 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 57.6%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Dover Town
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 2,368 permits in Dover Town. 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 Dover Town construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Dover Town: 3.490
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 43.0%. 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 Morris towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Dover Town (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $60,851,630. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Morris district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 3.273.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Dover Town
These figures use Dover Town’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 68.64% would be assessed at about $343,200. At the general rate of 3.490, the estimated tax is $11,978. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $137,280, with an estimated tax of $4,791.
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 Dover Town
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Dover Town. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 LINCOLN AVE | 12/23/2025 | $752,000 | $323,200 |
| 29 DRAKE AVE | 12/12/2025 | $434,995 | $174,100 |
| 120 PARK HEIGHTS AVE | 12/10/2025 | $525,000 | $235,600 |
| 33 N MORRIS ST | 12/8/2025 | $370,000 | $326,200 |
| 77BAKER AVE | 12/8/2025 | $350,000 | $265,500 |
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 Dover Town: $23,934
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Dover Town is $23,934 at 180 ANN ST, on a net assessment of $685,800 and a 2025 general rate of 3.490.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 180 ANN ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $685,800 | 2025 | $23,934 |
| 24-26-28 BOWLBY AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $585,000 | 2025 | $20,417 |
| 50 RESERVOIR AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $583,700 | 2025 | $20,371 |
| 38-40 SEARING ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $511,400 | 2025 | $17,848 |
| 240 ANN ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $509,000 | 2025 | $17,764 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Dover Town is $1,487,448 at 400 W BLACKWELL ST, on a net assessment of $42,620,300 and a 2025 general rate of 3.490.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 400 W BLACKWELL ST | 4A — Commercial | $42,620,300 | 2025 | $1,487,448 |
| 1 COMMERCE CENTER DR | 4B — Industrial | $17,932,200 | 2025 | $625,834 |
| 530 MT PLEASANT AVE | 4B — Industrial | $12,688,800 | 2025 | $442,839 |
| 2 COMMERCE CENTER DR | 4A — Commercial | $10,060,000 | 2025 | $351,094 |
| 570 MT PLEASANT AVE | 4B — Industrial | $10,020,200 | 2025 | $349,705 |
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 Dover Town, typical class 2 assessment $241,564
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 3,606 parcels, average net assessment $241,564.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $867,391,700 to $869,738,700, up 0.3%, on 3,585 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 81 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $490,000. 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 | 3,606 | $871,078,900 | 57.6% |
| Vacant land 1 | 388 | $207,846,300 | 13.7% |
| Commercial 4A | 347 | $275,600,700 | 18.2% |
| Industrial 4B | 57 | $101,404,600 | 6.7% |
| Apartment 4C | 30 | $55,370,300 | 3.7% |
| Other / unclassified other | 9 | $2,116,400 | 0.1% |
Housing stock in Dover Town, median year built 1940
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Dover Town with a year built have a median year of 1940, about 86 years old. Of those 3,586 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 81.3%, Vacant land 8.7%, Commercial 7.8%, Industrial 1.3%, Apartment 0.7%, Other / unclassified 0.2%. 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.