Clark, New Jersey.
Typical home $718,059 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $2,350 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,106 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,451 +2%
- $701,608$718,059 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $201,753 +39%
- $516,306$718,059 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.
- Clark$3,769
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Clark, NJ rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clark, Union County, New Jersey
Clark is a township of 15,544 people in Union County. Half its households earn more than $133,504 a year and half less, against $103,202 across Union County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Union County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clark is a township in Union County, with a population that skews somewhat older than a typical American community. Most homes are lived in by their owners, incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. More adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services also employing a good number. Among the biggest workplaces in Clark are the Clark Township Public School District, Wakefern and Acme Markets. Commutes are fairly long, and a noticeable share of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the Statue of Liberty is one of the best known tourist attractions in the country and sits a longer drive away. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park are also a longer drive away, one a museum and the other a garden, and the Hudson River runs through the same region.
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- 5,929households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 231,428 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 68°. About 26 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cranford weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clark
- Clark Township Public School DistrictSchool district370FTE
- WakefernGrocery stores324
- Clark205
- Acme MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores128
- Rose RailingsSteel erection & fabrication37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 694 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Union 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 Union County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Clark home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clark$718,059
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Clark listings — 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.
- Clark20.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clark42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clark16
Zip codes with a Clark address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clark — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.