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1. Municipal Taxes

The municipality collects your property taxes but is responsible for only for 17 cents of the dollar to operate residential services. The Board of Education receives 72 % on the dollar, County tax collects of the dollar , Fire Tax collect of the dollar and Open Space gets of the dollar. On the average tax bill for a Howell resident is. that means $ is what you pay to the municipal to support services such as Police, DPW, Senior Services and every Department within the Administration.

2. Road Maintenance

The Township has and maintains over 550 miles of roads.

3. Land Preservation

The Township[ has preserved a total of 913.486 acres of open space. 369.560 acres is preserved for recreation and 543.936 is preserved for farmland.

4. Census report

Howell Township is 62 square miles and is the largest municipality in size within Monmouth County. The current bureau of census has 53,000 people residing in Howell Township.

5. Leaf and Brush Pickup

It takes our DPW crews approximately 8 weeks to do an average leaf and brush pickup.

6. Electronic Waste

Since instituting electronic recycling program in 2014, the township has collected 502,000 pounds or 251 tons of electronic waste