How high were your 2025 property taxes? Compare your community to others in New Jersey here.

It's not news that New Jersey homeowners face some of the highest property tax bills in the nation, but there's some solace when you discover the folks in the next town over are paying significantly more.

"Some states with high property taxes, like New Hampshire and Texas, rely heavily on them in lieu of other major tax categories," a study by the nonprofit Tax Foundation stated last year. "Other states, like New Jersey and Illinois, impose high property taxes alongside high rates in the other major tax categories."

The study found that a ranking of 2023 effective property tax rates for the nation's counties put Camden County in No. 2, Salem County in No. 3 and Gloucester County in No. 6. The highest-cost county was Menominee in Wisconsin.

> A South Jersey 2025 municipal ranking is below and under that is a table of taxes in 564 NJ municipalities.

A list of average municipal property tax bills released last month by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs shows that, in South Jersey, Moorestown, Medford, Voorhees and Medford Lakes in the top 10 when ranked by average 2025 property tax bills.

Could it be worse? Yes, if you lived elsewhere in New Jersey.

Most South Jersey municipalities had a lower average property tax bill in 2025 than the state average of $10,570. Haddonfield's average bill of $17,761 was 68% higher than the state average. Bills in Moorestown ($13,076), Medford ($12,430), Voorhees ($11,723) and Medford Lakes ($11,694) were higher than the state average. (Tiny Tavistock Borough in Camden County is not included in our analysis.)

What of Camden County's largest municipality? Cherry Hill's average bill of $9,874 was less than the state average and made it No. 25 in a ranking of the South Jersey towns, boroughs and cities.

Evesham was $9,431 and Mount Laurel was $7,506.

Where do all of those dollars go? 

For all municipalities, more than half (52%) of the property tax dollar went to support local and regional school districts. The municipal share was 30% and the county share was 18%.

The percentage of taxes spent on schools in Voorhees (52%) about equaled the state average.

But spending on schools was higher than the state average in Medford (70%), Evesham (68%), Mount Laurel (67%), Moorestown (67%), Medford Lakes (65%) and Cherry Hill (62%).