Carneys Point, New Jersey.
Typical home $268,379 (+5.3% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$876 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,461 +5%
- $254,918$268,379 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,086 +41%
- $190,294$268,379 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.
- Carneys Point$1,409
- 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 Carneys Point, NJ rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carneys Point, Salem County, New Jersey
Carneys Point, in Salem County, had 7,841 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $77,273 a year and half less, against $79,960 across Salem County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Salem County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carneys Point is a small community in Salem County, New Jersey, with residents who are older on average than across much of the country. Incomes run a little below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, then manufacturing and shops. Among the larger workplaces in town are Salem Community College, Kast Distributors and a Rivian Automotive warehousing site. Not many adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The Christina River runs in or beside town. A short drive away are Fort Christina, a historic fort, and the Delaware Art Museum. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Delaware River and, in Philadelphia, Independence Hall.
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- 3,316households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Salem County had 22,148 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 67°. About 12 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilmington Porter Rsch weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carneys Point
- Salem Community CollegeTwo-year college214
- Kast DistributorsDried foods merchant wholesalers110
- Rivian Automotive - 25 North Golfwood AveGeneral warehousing and storage32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 142 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Carneys Point’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 Salem County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Carneys Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carneys Point$268,379
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Carneys Point listings — 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.
- Carneys Point20.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Carneys Point29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Carneys Point9
Zip codes with a Carneys Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carneys Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.