Tools for living in Hunterdon County

Check a contractor's license, plan the weekend, see what's closing on your road. Free, built on public data, nothing you type gets stored.

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Check a license

Type a contractor's name or license number, see their state registration status in seconds.

Event calendar

Everything on around the county this month, on a calendar and a map. Filter by kids or grown-ups, by kind of thing, and by town.

Places worth a trip

Answer four questions, get evergreen picks across the county that fit your crew: parks, farms, wineries, museums.

Road work map

What's closed or under construction, where, and when it reopens, on a timeline.

Development tracker

Pending warehouses, subdivisions, and rezonings near you, plus which towns are moving on data-center bans.

County Pulse

This week's county alerts, public meetings, park notices, and county job postings, pulled from the county's own feeds.

Town Chooser

Moving to (or within) Hunterdon? Weigh taxes, schools, commute, and environment, then compare any two towns with real numbers.

Food help near you

Pantries, self-serve cabinets, and meal programs across the county, with hours and flags for the ones that don't ask questions.

Farmland tax checker

See whether your land qualifies for Farmland Assessment and estimate a rollback bill at your town's real 2025 rate. August 1 is the filing deadline.

Teen first jobs

See what's hiring for teens right now, plus working papers step by step and the real hour limits by age.

Lost & found pets

See who's lost or found nearby right now, plus what to do first if your pet goes missing.

River levels

Live height and flow for the South Branch, the Delaware, and the county's creeks, with each gauge's real flood stage.

Train departures

Next Raritan Valley Line trains from High Bridge, Annandale, Lebanon, and White House, weekends handled automatically.

Air quality now

Live smoke and air alerts for the county, plus current readings from the four closest state monitors.

Money deadlines

State property-tax relief, heating-bill help, and winter shutoff protection, with the real filing dates. Property-tax relief is due November 2.

Well & septic care

On a private well? What to test and how often, what selling requires, and where to get tested locally, plus keeping a septic healthy.

Getting around without a car

The county bus (LINK) runs eight free routes, plus door-to-door rides and a volunteer driver program for medical trips out of county.

Senior meals

Meals on Wheels delivers to homebound seniors 60+ and runs weekday lunches you can go eat together, suggested donation $5.50 a meal.

Which court has your ticket

A ticket goes to your town's municipal court, and towns share them. Find yours: the court, the address, the number, plus how to request town records.

Ice cream, ranked

Where to get ice cream in the county, sorted by review standings, awards, and who actually makes it on the farm.

Little free libraries

The little book boxes around the county: where they are, what you'll find in them, and how to tell us about one we missed. Take a book, leave a book, no card needed.

Can you afford your town?

The salary it takes to buy the median home in each of the 26 towns, from state sales records, current rates, and each town's real property tax.

School spending

What every Hunterdon district spends per student, what teachers and administrators make, and class sizes, from the state's own books.

Property tax map

What every Hunterdon town pays: average bill, effective rate, where the money goes, and how much your town's bill grew since 2020.

Crash map

Five years of state crash records on one county map: where crashes cluster, deer and pedestrian layers, and the spots that hurt the most people.

Data center map

Which of the county's 26 towns have banned data centers, which passed a resolution against them, and which have nothing on the books, with the ordinance numbers and the records behind each one.

Flock camera map

Where the Flock license plate reader cameras reported in the county are, who operates them when the source data names one, and where each report came from.

Which Hunterdon towns certify plate readers

Every Hunterdon law enforcement agency certified for license plate readers, plus what public records exist on cameras, grants, and contracts. Data as of September 2026.

Town rules lookup

Chickens, sheds, Airbnbs, tree removal, home businesses, garage sales: what your town's code actually says, for all 26 towns, with the section numbers.

Warehouse distance checker

Type your address and see how far you live from every approved or pending warehouse in the county, and whether any battery storage site is on file.

Tax appeal estimator

Enter your assessment and what your house is really worth. The state ratio table says whether an appeal is worth filing, town by town.

Flood map checker

FEMA redrew the flood maps along the Raritan. Type your address and see your zone on the current map and the new one, side by side.

Vet wait-time board

Every vet in Hunterdon on one page, the two 24/7 emergency hospitals up top, and what readers were told when they called for an appointment.

Frost dates

When frost actually arrives where you live: first fall frost and last spring frost from 30 years of NOAA readings, town by town.

Heating oil prices

Today's published heating oil prices in Hunterdon side by side, with the cheaper online price flagged and every dealer's number.

Business directory

3,194 Hunterdon businesses by town and category

Well water map

Hunterdon map and town rankings of tested private wells over the limit for arsenic, nitrate, PFAS, and coliform, from NJDEP data.

Court filings map

Every Hunterdon town's municipal court ranked by cases filed and fines revenue, from state court statistics and town budgets.

Batteries and solar rules map

See how each Hunterdon town treats battery storage and solar farms, with every project found in public records.

Affordable housing map

Hunterdon map and town cards of fourth-round affordable housing obligations, adopted numbers, challenges, settlements, and planned sites, from state and court records.

Contaminated sites map

Map every NJDEP known contaminated site and all four Superfund sites in Hunterdon County, and search an address to find the nearest ones.

Hunterdon farm map

A map and directory of every Hunterdon County farm that sells directly to the public, drawn from two public directories.

Life in Hunterdon County, twice a week

Local events, what's opening and closing, road closures, and the scams going around. Free, every Monday and Thursday morning.