Berlin, New Jersey.
Typical home $393,570 (+3.1% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,229 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,783 +3%
- $381,786$393,570 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $106,790 +37%
- $286,780$393,570 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.
- Berlin$2,066
- 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 Berlin, NJ rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berlin, Camden County, New Jersey
Berlin is a borough of 7,489 people in Camden County. Half its households earn more than $102,855 a year and half less, against $88,755 across Camden County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Camden County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berlin is a small borough in Camden County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and the typical home is valued well above what many older homeowners elsewhere in the region would expect. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn properly hot; rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and transport and warehousing also employing a share of the town. Among the larger workplaces in Berlin are Virtua West Jersey Health System, a group-home provider for people with developmental disabilities, and Wawa convenience stores. Commutes tend to be long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Berlin sits within a longer drive of Philadelphia's best-known sights. Independence Hall, the old meeting place of the nation's founders, is the most famous, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Franklin Institute are well-known museums. Sports fans can head to Lincoln Financial Field, a stadium that is also a longer drive away.
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- 2,793households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Camden County had 207,142 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Indian Mills West weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berlin
- Virtua West Jersey Health SysHealthcare121
- Wawa SiteConvenience store62
- Vision UtilitiesTransmission and distribution line construction61
- Wawa SiteConvenience store52
- ATT SportsRubber bands manufacturing47
- PHL QuikreteManufacturing42
- Wawa SiteConvenience store33
- Legacy Treatment ServicesMental health facilities, residential30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 477 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Berlin’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 Camden County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Berlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berlin$393,570
- 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 Berlin listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Berlin22.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Berlin30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Berlin10
Zip codes with a Berlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.