Property Tax Rate (effective)

Source

County Tax Records · vintage 2026 · refresh cadence: annual

Effective rate as % of market value (NJ-style, normalized for assessment ratio)

Direction of better

Lower values are better. Used to rank candidate towns/properties; lower score = stronger fit.

Unit

Values are reported in percent_or_decimal.

Where the data lives

Tables: municipality_metrics

Columns: property_tax_rate

Input field: property_tax_rate

JSON-LD example

Every value emitted by ValiFit (in /api/v1, MCP responses, on-page JSON-LD) carries a propertyID set to this metric_id, so AI clients can resolve it back here in one round-trip.

{
  "@type": "PropertyValue",
  "propertyID": "town.property_tax_rate",
  "name": "Property Tax Rate (effective)",
  "value": "example",
  "unitText": "percent_or_decimal",
  "additionalProperty": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "composite",
      "value": "Budget"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "level",
      "value": "city"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "direction",
      "value": "lower_better"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "source_year",
      "value": "2026"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "fha_safe",
      "value": true
    }
  ],
  "valueReference": {
    "@type": "QuantitativeValue",
    "additionalType": "https://valifit.com/catalog/metric",
    "identifier": "town.property_tax_rate",
    "sameAs": "County Tax Records"
  },
  "mentions": [
    {
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "@id": "https://valifit.com/sources/county-assessor",
      "identifier": "COUNTY_ASSESSOR",
      "name": "County Assessor + Recorder Data",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax_in_the_United_States",
      "sameAs": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax_in_the_United_States",
      "creator": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "County tax assessors (3,144 US counties)"
      },
      "temporalCoverage": "continuous",
      "dateModified": "2026-05-11"
    }
  ]
}