Augusta, New Jersey.
Typical home $549,593 (+3.4% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$327 (+13%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $18,132 +3%
- $531,461$549,593 since Sep 2025
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.
- Augusta$2,885
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Augusta, NJ rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Augusta, Sussex County, New Jersey
The Census does not count Augusta on its own, so the figures here are Sussex County's. Half the county's households earn more than $116,186 a year and half less; 6% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 84% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Sussex County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sussex County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Augusta is a small town in Sussex County, in the hilly northwest corner of New Jersey. Across the county, the median age sits above the national middle, most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run high, with few families below the poverty line. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall through much of the year.
Work. Across Sussex County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, and manufacturing. Jobs grew slightly over the past year, and unemployment has eased since the year before. Relatively few residents work from home, so most people commute to work.
Things to do. Lake Neepaulin is a lake a short drive away, a common place for people to spend a quiet afternoon by the water. Stokes State Forest, a protected area also a short drive away, offers woodland to walk through. Fulmer Falls, a waterfall a longer drive away, is worth the trip for a day out.
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- 57,767households
- 43.8median age
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Sussex County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sussex County had 38,705 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sussex Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sussex County
- ThorlabsInstrument lenses manufacturing1,227
- Newton Medical CenterGeneral hospital914FTE
- Sparta Township Public School DistrictSchool district601FTE
- Vernon Township School DistrictSchool district547FTE
- Sussex County Community CollegeTwo-year college458
- Ronetco SupermarketsSupermarkets330
- Ronetco SupermarketsSupermarkets315
- AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness HoldingsHydroponic crop farming312
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 66 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,972 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sussex County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Sussex County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Augusta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Augusta$549,593
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Augusta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Augusta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.