Property taxes are a perennially painful subject here in the Garden State, and if we can't roll them back, we can at least use the Internet to learn more about them. On the NJ.com site, there is a section called New Jersey by the Numbers, which includes database tables with searchable property tax data. For example, if you go here, you can see that here in Middlesex County, the highest average property taxes are found in Cranbury, and the lowest are in South Amboy.
You can also see how the property taxes for each town has changed over the years, although the data is only complete through 2007. The site also has something called a Tax Trauma score, which ranks towns by the percent of household income going to taxes. By this measure, the least fortunate town in Middlesex County is Highland Park.
There's a lot of useful information on the site, and you might want to take some time looking around there, to see how much people around the state are paying in taxes. Just don't expect it to be much fun.
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