Gloucester County, New Jersey

Where to obtain records

Gloucester County municipal routing; example: Woodbury Tax Collector

Office website →

How to find the information

Start with the municipality where the parcel lies. New Jersey municipal collectors hold the local collection account, even when the bill includes county or school charges. The example below covers Woodbury only. For another place in Gloucester County, use the Office website link to the state’s County and Municipal Web Sites directory, then confirm the municipality’s official collector and public-records custodian. That directory cautions that some listed sites may not be official.

For City of Woodbury property, use Tax Office at extension 119 and its Online Bill Pay link. For other Gloucester County municipalities, the county’s Find Your Tax Collector directory provides separate municipal collection contacts.

For records beyond the published page, ask the responsible collector for an existing delinquent real-estate report, account/payment ledger or current lien-redemption calculation. Identify the municipality, block/lot/qualifier or tax-account ID, years, desired as-of date and preferred inspection/electronic-copy format. Ask whether tax, sewer, water and other municipal charges are separate. For a formal existing-records request, use that municipality’s records custodian/OPRA route; confirm any copying, extract or certification charges before ordering.

What to ask for

“I am looking for publicly available delinquent real-property tax records for Gloucester County for [tax year]. Which office maintains these records? Is there an online search or downloadable list? If not, how can I request a copy, and what fees apply?”

Have the property address, parcel number, owner name, and tax year ready when searching for a particular property.

County-specific notes

The county-directory route is https://gloucestercountynj.gov/257/Find-Your-Tax-Collector. The County Assessor number published by Woodbury concerns property values/assessments, not municipal payment status. Woodbury City and Woodbury Heights Borough are separate collectors; the water/sewer e-bill authorization is not a real-estate delinquency report. Reviewed status concerns source/access guidance, not certified taxpayer liability. Tax-sale notices, recorded liens, assessed values and current collector balances have different coverage. No taxpayer rows, sale-list attachments or account results are reproduced.