Elizabeth City NJ property tax rate 2025: 2.017
Elizabeth City, Union County. 19,939 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.
Elizabeth City at a glance
19,939 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 2.017, and the prior rate on file is 1.924 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $486,814. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 315, median $600,000. The state construction file lists 8,262 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1924. 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 Elizabeth City bill
Elizabeth City’s general rate of 2.017 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 1.924 for 2024. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 18.6%, 17.0%, and 64.5%. The largest slice is municipal. In Union County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 49.0% in Springfield Twp. Class 2 net assessments changed from $7,371,953,800 to $7,449,337,100, up 1.0%, on 15,303 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $600,000 (315 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Vacant land at 48.4%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Elizabeth City
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 8,262 permits in Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth City construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Elizabeth City: 2.017
This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.
In Union County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 49.0%; this town is 18.6%. 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 Union towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Elizabeth City (K-12), FY2027 K–12 aid $595,775,011. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Union district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 1.924.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Elizabeth City
These figures use Elizabeth 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 100.00% would be assessed at about $500,000. At the general rate of 2.017, the estimated tax is $10,085. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $200,000, with an estimated tax of $4,034.
In Union County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $7,393 in Summit City to $14,114 in Roselle Boro. The middle bill is $10,396 in Garwood Boro. All Union towns.
See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.
Recent usable sales in Elizabeth City
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Elizabeth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 310 WALNUT ST | 11/24/2025 | $204,000 | $289,200 |
| 1111-1115 E JERSEY ST | 11/14/2025 | $2,200,000 | $2,673,700 |
| 968-970 GROVE ST | 11/10/2025 | $500,000 | $446,900 |
| 742 PENNINGTON ST | 11/7/2025 | $810,000 | $583,900 |
| 420 CHERRY ST | 11/6/2025 | $150,000 | $419,600 |
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 Elizabeth City: $40,027
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Elizabeth City is $40,027 at 1016-1018 AUGUSTA ST, on a net assessment of $1,984,500 and a 2025 general rate of 2.017.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1016-1018 AUGUSTA ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,984,500 | 2025 | $40,027 |
| 425-435 S BROAD ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,595,600 | 2025 | $32,183 |
| 526-530 S BROAD ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,250,000 | 2025 | $25,213 |
| 256-258 W GRAND ST | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,219,700 | 2025 | $24,601 |
| 717-719 MONROE AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $1,211,200 | 2025 | $24,430 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Elizabeth City is $3,278,982 at 63-265 BAY AVE, on a net assessment of $162,567,300 and a 2025 general rate of 2.017.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63-265 BAY AVE | 4B — Industrial | $162,567,300 | 2025 | $3,278,982 |
| 104-142 NORTH AVE E | 4B — Industrial | $113,579,100 | 2025 | $2,290,890 |
| 2-90 NORTH AVE EAST | 4B — Industrial | $97,203,500 | 2025 | $1,960,595 |
| 731 DOWD AVE | 4B — Industrial | $89,242,100 | 2025 | $1,800,013 |
| 101-271 TRUMBULL ST | 4B — Industrial | $74,949,400 | 2025 | $1,511,729 |
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 Elizabeth City, typical class 2 assessment $486,814
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 15,304 parcels, average net assessment $486,814.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $7,371,953,800 to $7,449,337,100, up 1.0%, on 15,303 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the assessment roll, not an appraisal.
Among 315 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $600,000. 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 | 15,304 | $7,450,201,800 | 26.0% |
| Vacant land 1 | 1,643 | $13,863,771,800 | 48.4% |
| Commercial 4A | 2,023 | $2,810,219,400 | 9.8% |
| Industrial 4B | 183 | $2,632,568,300 | 9.2% |
| Apartment 4C | 677 | $1,831,366,500 | 6.4% |
| Other / unclassified other | 109 | $38,865,300 | 0.1% |
Housing stock in Elizabeth City, median year built 1924
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Elizabeth City with a year built have a median year of 1924, about 102 years old. Of those 15,093 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 76.8%, Commercial 10.1%, Vacant land 8.2%, Apartment 3.4%, Industrial 0.9%, Other / unclassified 0.5%. 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.