Brick, New Jersey.
Typical home $521,655 (+5.5% in a year), asking rent $2,718 (+4.7%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,683 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,005 +5%
- $494,650$521,655 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $154,176 +42%
- $367,479$521,655 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.
- Brick$2,738
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Brick, NJ rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Brick, NJ rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Brick runs $1,295/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $4,013 a month against $2,718 rent: a $2,738 mortgage payment, plus $716 property tax and $558 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Brick
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,013
- Renting$2,718
- Mortgage only$2,738
Property tax · $716/mo 1.65% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Ocean County, NJ
Insurance & upkeep · $558/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Brick, Ocean County, New Jersey
Brick is a township of 73,620 people in Ocean County. Half its households earn more than $106,130 a year and half less, against $89,863 across Ocean County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% 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. Brick is a large township in Ocean County, and its residents are older than in much of the country. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than is typical, and household incomes run above the county's. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size, and a four-year degree is held by a solid share of adults.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Brick are HMH-Ocean University Medical Center, the Brick Township Public School District and Walmart. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and only a small group of workers do their jobs from home.
Things to do. The Metedeconk River runs in or beside town, and the Manasquan River, Toms River and Lake Carasaljo are each a short drive away for time on the water. Also a short drive off are Casino Pier, an amusement park, and Allaire Village, a museum. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
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- 30,289households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%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 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Toms River weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brick
- HMH -ocean University Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,810FTE
- Brick Township Public School DistrictSchool district1,434FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer321
- Complete Care at ShorrockNursing homes161
- Willow Springs OperatorSkilled nursing facilities131
- Trader Joe's 0615 BrickGrocery store105
- Complete Care at brickSkilled nursing facilities98
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,383 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Coastal floodingVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Ocean County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.
Brick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brick$521,655
- 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 Brick listings, and the typical home goes pending in 21 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Brick22.26%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Brick21
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brick313
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brick120
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Brick$476,267
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Brick100.97%
Zip codes with a Brick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Brick
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08724 | Brick | 42,345 | $2,542 | $521,117 |
| 08723 | Brick | 32,141 | $2,853 | $521,147 |