Brigantine, New Jersey.
Typical home $727,009 (+7.5% in a year), asking rent $2,340 . Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,516 (+193%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $50,423 +7%
- $676,586$727,009 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $217,133 +43%
- $509,876$727,009 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.
- Brigantine$3,816
- 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 Brigantine, NJ rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brigantine, Atlantic County, New Jersey
Brigantine is a city of 7,716 people in Atlantic County. Half its households earn more than $97,250 a year and half less, against $78,050 across Atlantic County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Atlantic County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brigantine is a small city whose residents are older than in most American towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Household incomes run higher than across Atlantic County, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many places. Typical home values and rents are both high, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers warm, with January the coldest month and July the warmest, and a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and shops. The largest workplaces in Brigantine include the Brigantine Public School District, Acme Markets and Wawa. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a good number of people work from home. Across Atlantic County, unemployment has eased over the past year and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Little Beach is a beach a short drive away, and Steel Pier, an amusement park, is also a short drive off. For open country, the Pinelands National Reserve is a protected area a short drive away, while the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area a longer drive away.
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- 4,043households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Atlantic County had 125,225 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 70°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atlantic City weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brigantine
- Brigantine Public School DistrictSchool district127FTE
- Acme MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores91
- Wawa SiteConvenience store35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 126 people in all. School districts come 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 floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of BrigantineRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brigantine’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Atlantic County and the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro.
Brigantine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brigantine$727,009
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Brigantine listings, and the typical home goes pending in 47 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.
- Brigantine25.44%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Brigantine47
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brigantine111
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brigantine34
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Brigantine$679,098
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Brigantine97.31%
Zip codes with a Brigantine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brigantine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.