A resident-friendly guide to where the township's money comes from, where it goes, and what it means for your household — based on the municipal budget only, not your school or county taxes.
These are the totals printed on the township's adopted budget form. Each card shows where the figure comes from so you can look it up yourself.
The same 2026 figures, your way — a clean set of charts, or an interactive 3D view you can orbit and explore. Hover or tap anything for the details behind it.
Every dollar the township takes in (left) flows into the 2026 budget, then back out into spending (right). Band width shows the size — click any band or category for details.
Click any bar — or any flow between them — to see what it covers.
Sources: Revenues Summary (Sheet 11) and Appropriations (Sheets 12–30)
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Every property owner in West Windsor pays municipal taxes based on their home's assessed value. Enter yours below to estimate your 2026 municipal tax bill and see how it's split across the same categories as the chart above. Don't have it handy? The breakdown below already works without any input — and you can expand any category to see its largest line items.
Illustrative assessed values — enter yours above to see where it lands.
Estimate = Assessed Value × 0.427? ÷ 100
$500,000 × 0.427 ÷ 100 = $2,135.00
0.427 is the most recently published municipal (local-purpose) tax rate per $100 of assessed value, used in the township's 2026 levy-cap calculation (Sheet 3-Levy CAP). The final 2026 rate depends on the certified tax levy and total assessed valuation, so treat this as an estimate, not a bill.
Your privacy: this calculation happens entirely in your browser. The value you enter is never sent anywhere, stored, or logged — it disappears the moment you close or refresh this page.
Tap any department below to see its largest line items.
Every appropriation? line in the adopted budget also lists what was budgeted for 2025, so the same totals can be compared year over year. Figures below are the as-introduced 2025 amounts compared with the adopted 2026 amounts — the categories with the biggest dollar swings are shown first.
Source: Appropriations Schedule (Sheets 12–30), 2025 vs. 2026 columns
New Jersey law limits how much most municipal spending (the appropriation “CAP”?) and the property-tax levy (the levy cap?) can grow each year. The adopted 2026 budget comes in under both.
Answers to the most common questions about where this data comes from, what it does and doesn't cover, and how to verify it yourself.
Every figure on this page is transcribed directly from the Township of West Windsor's adopted 2026 municipal budget, as filed with the New Jersey Division of Local Government Services. Original department labels, FCOA? codes, and source-sheet references are preserved for every row so you can look any number up in the source document yourself.
No. A few rules keep every figure faithful to the source workbook:
This page covers only the municipal budget — the township government's own operations (police, roads, parks, etc.). School funding is a separate budget set by the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, and it's the largest part of most residents' property tax bills: school taxes for 2025 totaled $111,688,841, roughly twice the size of this entire municipal budget. County taxes are set separately by Mercer County and aren't included here either.
No. This tool is built and maintained by West Windsor Forward, a nonpartisan civic organization. It is not an official Township of West Windsor publication and does not replace the adopted budget document — it's meant to make that document easier to understand.
Yes — every table behind this page is searchable on the Data Tables page, or you can download the underlying data as JSON and explore it yourself.
Watch the Mayor walk through the 2026 budget. Prefer to read it? The full adopted budget and capital plan are linked at the top of the page.