Absecon, New Jersey.
Typical home $347,108 (+4.6% in a year), asking rent $2,000 . Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,156 (+174%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,307 +5%
- $331,802$347,108 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,344 +46%
- $237,764$347,108 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Absecon$1,822
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Absecon, NJ rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Absecon, Atlantic County, New Jersey
Absecon is a city of 9,137 people in Atlantic County. Half its households earn more than $73,676 a year and half less, against $78,050 across Atlantic County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Atlantic County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Absecon is a small city in Atlantic County where most homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than across much of the country. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and the typical home is worth more than many might expect for the area. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with rain spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and transport and warehousing also common. Among the largest workplaces in Absecon are Preferred Care at Absecon, a skilled nursing facility, the Absecon Public Schools District, and the Village Super market. Commutes are fairly short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Steel Pier, an amusement park, is a short drive away, as is Bass River, a good spot for time on the water. For a longer outing, Wharton State Forest is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Pinelands National Reserve lies in or beside town, so open woodland is close at hand.
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- 3,535households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Atlantic County had 125,225 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 17 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atlantic City International Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Absecon
- preferred care at abseconSkilled nursing facilities191
- Absecon Public Schools DistrictSchool district189FTE
- Village Super marketSupermarkets146
- Hispanic VenturesWallpaper hanging and removal contractors89
- Wawa SiteConvenience store35
- Hispanic Ventures ContractingPainting and wallpapering27
- Cirignano ContractingPainting contractors20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 508 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Absecon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Atlantic County and the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro.
Absecon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Absecon$347,108
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Absecon listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Absecon14.98%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Absecon44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Absecon13
Zip codes with a Absecon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Absecon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.