Bridgeport, New Jersey.
Typical home $312,633 (-2.6% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$84 (+5%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $8,315 -3%
- $320,948$312,633 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.
- Bridgeport$1,641
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bridgeport, NJ fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bridgeport, Gloucester County, New Jersey
Bridgeport, in Gloucester County, had 389 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Gloucester County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gloucester County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bridgeport is a very small community in Gloucester County, New Jersey, with far fewer residents than most towns that appear on this site. The typical home is valued well below what a house in many parts of the country would cost, and household incomes across Gloucester County are comfortably above the national picture. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn hot by July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Across Gloucester County, the largest workplaces include Rowan University, Amazon and Lourdes Health System. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Subaru Park, a stadium, sits in or beside town, which puts a match day close to home. A longer drive brings you to the Delaware River and to Independence Hall, an archaeological site and one of the best known places in the country. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, also a longer drive away, rounds out a day trip into the city.
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What people in Gloucester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gloucester County had 128,002 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marcus Hook weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gloucester County
- Rowan UniversityUniversity or college4,191
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,992
- Lourdes Health System - 1600 Haddon AveHealthcare2,644
- TargetDiscount department stores2,507
- Inspira Medical Center Mullica HillGeneral hospital2,037FTE
- Jefferson Hospital Washington TownshipGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,685
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,386
- Monroe Township Public School DistrictSchool district1,379FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 270 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 41,322 people in all across the county; Bridgeport has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bridgeport’s census tracts, 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 Gloucester County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Bridgeport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bridgeport$312,633
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bridgeport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bridgeport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.