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Toilet Repair in New Jersey

Across the 448 New Jersey towns we route calls in, 63% of households own their home and 76% of the housing was built before 1990. The first figure decides who pays for the repair; the second decides what is probably installed.

Short version

Across the 448 New Jersey towns covered here, 63% of households own their home and 76% of the housing was built before 1990. The first figure decides who pays for a toilet repair; the second is about the house rather than the fixture in it.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 and B25034.

Tank and Bowl is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect homeowners with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. Every state page sets out who licenses plumbers there and where to check, so you can confirm before work begins. We carry out no work, we sell no fixtures, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

The two figures, for New Jersey as a whole

New JerseyShareHomes
Owner-occupied63%2,080,253
Rented37%1,231,393

Weighted across 3,311,646 occupied homes. Separately, 76% of the state’s 3,579,369 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.

New Jersey does not divide evenly

A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 448 towns we route in here, 278 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 15 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 191 are strongly owner-occupied and 65 are renter-heavy.

The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.

The largest towns we route in New Jersey

TownOwner-occupiedBuilt before 1990Occupied homes
Jersey City29%65%123,132
Newark24%73%113,859
Trenton57%87%80,787
Toms River83%75%53,447
Paterson26%84%49,654
Edison61%80%36,950
Elizabeth25%83%36,791
Clifton58%90%32,683

What goes wrong, wherever you are in New Jersey

The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.

What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.

Checking a plumber in New Jersey

Checking a credential in New Jersey

New Jersey licenses are issued by the New Jersey State Board of Examiners of Master Plumbers, Division of Consumer Affairs, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

Towns we route in New Jersey

If the dye test pointed at the flapper, that is a part, not a fixture.Worth saying on the call, because it changes what somebody arrives with. We connect you to a contractor covering your area and you are never charged. Toilets head this site, but any plumbing job is welcome.

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