Chesilhurst, New Jersey.
Typical home $327,665 (+4.0% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,079 (+168%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,641 +4%
- $315,024$327,665 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,560 +40%
- $234,104$327,665 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.
- Chesilhurst$1,720
- 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 Chesilhurst, NJ rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chesilhurst, Camden County, New Jersey
Chesilhurst is a borough of 1,536 people in Camden County. Half its households earn more than $91,683 a year and half less, against $88,755 across Camden County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% 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 construction.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chesilhurst is a small borough in Camden County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and home values sit at a comfortable level for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings real summer warmth. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Camden County, the largest workplaces include Cooper University Hospital, West Jersey Health System and the Cherry Hill School District. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and the commute to work is a long one for many people. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year.
Things to do. The Pine Barrens, a protected area of woods and trails, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Independence Hall, an archaeological site in Philadelphia, and to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The USS New Jersey, a museum ship, is also a longer drive away.
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- 529households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 8%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 66°. About 19 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hammonton Northeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Camden County
- Cooper University HospitalGeneral hospital5,762FTE
- West Jersey Health SystemGeneral hospital3,326FTE
- Kennedy University HospitalGeneral hospital3,097FTE
- Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes HospitalGeneral hospital2,971FTE
- Cherry Hill School DistrictSchool district2,184FTE
- Centuri GroupConstruction1,961
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,526
- Camden City School DistrictSchool district1,491FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 340 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 50,196 people in all across the county; Chesilhurst has none of its own. 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
- WildfireRelatively 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 Chesilhurst’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
Chesilhurst home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chesilhurst$327,665
- 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.
- Chesilhurst6
Zip codes with a Chesilhurst address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chesilhurst — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.