Watchung Boro has 365 absentee parcels out of 2,246
From the New Jersey MOD-IV composite file. Absentee here means the tax bill is mailed somewhere other than the property, compared after normalizing both addresses so that ROAD and RD do not count as different. In Somerset County.
Read this before you buy. New Jersey's public MOD-IV file carries no owner name. Not for this town, not for any of them. What you get is the address the tax bill is mailed to, with ZIP and often ZIP+4. That is enough to mail, and it is how absentee owners are found here, but if you need a name on the row this is not the right file and you should not buy it.
What arrives, column by column
Delivered as one CSV, zipped with a README that carries the source, the filter you asked for and the publishing agency's own disclaimer. Same day.
Every column in the file
- InProperty Addressthe situs address on the tax record
- InOwner Mailing Addresswhere the tax bill is actually sent
- InOwner Mail ZIPon every row, with ZIP+4 on 6.6% of them
- InParcel IDthe PAMS PIN
- InProperty Class1, 2, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 4C, raw
- InAcreson every row
- InNet Valuewith land, improvement, deed date and sale price
What is not in it
- Not inOwner nameNew Jersey's public MOD-IV file carries none — 0 of 3,077,980 rows. You get the address the tax bill goes to. If you need a name on the row, this is not the right file and you should not buy it.
- Not inOwner mailing state as its own columnMOD-IV publishes city and state in one field. We ship it as published and derive the state for the counts on this page.
- Not inPhone or emailwe do not have them and will not imply we do.
We print this before you pay because it is what we would want to read. If one of these lines is a dealbreaker, do not buy the file.
Actual records from the Watchung Boro file
| Parcel ID | Property Address | Owner Mailing Address | Mail City / State | Mail ZIP | Class | Acres | Net Value | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1821_7008_27 | 1• DRIFT ROAD | 2•• S.PASADENA AVE,4066 | PASADENA, CA | 91105 | 2 | 1.94 | $840,400 | Absentee |
| 1821_5702_2 | 1••• ROUTE 22 | 1•••• EL CAMINO REAL | SAN DIEGO, CA | 92130 | 4A | 0.87 | $2,006,000 | Absentee |
| 1821_6101_3 | 1••• ROUTE 22 | 1••• RUBENSTEIN AVENUE | CARDIFF, CA | 92007 | 4A | 0.92 | $1,470,000 | Absentee |
| 1821_4304_17.06 | 4• WATCHUNG CREST DRIVE | 1•• TACONIC ROAD | GREENWICH, CT | 06831 | 2 | 0.97 | $1,456,200 | Absentee |
| 1821_6900_7 | 3• FOX CHASE DRIVE | 6••• PELICAN BAY/UNIT1005 | NAPLES, FL | 34108 | 2 | 1.50 | $902,600 | Absentee |
| 1821_6905_26 | 1•• ELLISEN ROAD | 2••• PRESIDENTIAL WY 1102 | WEST PALM BEACH, FL | 33401 | 2 | 1.50 | $1,311,900 | Absentee |
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Where the tax bills go
Mailing address
2,246 parcels carry a mailing address, 2,246 a ZIP and 37 a ZIP+4.
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What the parcels are
| Property class | Parcels | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Residential (class 2) | 1,951 | 86.9% |
| Vacant land (class 1) | 131 | 5.8% |
| Commercial and industrial (class 4A, 4B) | 91 | 4.1% |
| Apartment (class 4C) | 1 | 0.0% |
| Farm (class 3A, 3B) | 5 | 0.2% |
What is missing, before you buy
The Watchung Boro file
Every parcel in the municipality, filtered however you want: residential, vacant, commercial, farm, or absentee only. CSV, same day.
Recorded data pull: 2026-09-06. This is not the source publication date or a live ownership check. Coverage is checked before checkout; filtered counts can be lower than the geography total. Download the coverage manifest.
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