Barnegat, New Jersey.
Typical home $508,057 (+4.6% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,647 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,313 +5%
- $485,744$508,057 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $142,163 +39%
- $365,894$508,057 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.
- Barnegat$2,667
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Barnegat, NJ rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barnegat, Ocean County, New Jersey
Barnegat, in Ocean County, had 3,894 people in the 2020 census. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Ocean County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barnegat is a small community in Ocean County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Poverty is rare here, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with highs not far above freezing in January, and some snow most years. Summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in government. Across Ocean County, some of the largest workplaces are the Toms River Regional School District and Community Medical Center. The typical commute is a moderate one, and only a few people work from home.
Things to do. Long Beach Island, a beach, and Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away. Island Beach State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive. For a day out with rides, Six Flags Great Adventure is also a longer drive.
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- 1,255households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ocean County had 192,715 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 69°. About 10 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brant Beach-beach Haven weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ocean County
- Toms River Regional School DistrictSchool district2,145FTE
- Community Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,986FTE
- HMH -ocean University Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,810FTE
- Brick Township Public School DistrictSchool district1,434FTE
- Jackson Township School DistrictSchool district1,357FTE
- Lakewood Township School DistrictSchool district1,285FTE
- Above and Beyond ABA CorporateOffices of mental health practitioners except physicians1,250
- Southern Ocean Medical CenterGeneral hospital888FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 235 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 31,195 people in all across the county; Barnegat has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Barnegat’s census tracts, 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 Ocean County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Barnegat home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barnegat$508,057
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Barnegat listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 days — 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.
- Barnegat24.04%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Barnegat19
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Barnegat129
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Barnegat45
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Barnegat$484,566
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Barnegat100.18%
Zip codes with a Barnegat address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barnegat — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.