Closter, New Jersey.
Typical home $1,201,134 (+9.4% in a year), asking rent $4,625 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,707 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $102,884 +9%
- $1,098,250$1,201,134 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $372,815 +45%
- $828,319$1,201,134 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.
- Closter$6,304
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Closter, NJ rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Closter, Bergen County, New Jersey
Closter is a borough of 8,594 people in Bergen County. Half its households earn more than $190,469 a year and half less, against $124,884 across Bergen County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Bergen County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Closter is a borough in Bergen County, home to a small town where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well above the county's, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is high. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, while July brings warm days. Snow falls through the winter, and the year is a wet one overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Closter are Worthington Enterprises, a sheet metal manufacturer, and the Closter Public School District. Many people work from home, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. The Bronx Zoo is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Hudson River and to New York's best-known sights, among them the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the city's great museums.
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- 2,654households
- 66%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 27%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bergen County had 437,006 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dobbs Ferry-ardsley weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Closter
- Worthington EnterprisesSheet metal work manufacturing421
- Capital Hardware SupplyLouvers, sheet metal, manufacturing250
- Closter Public School DistrictSchool district196FTE
- Closter175
- Interstate Waste ServicesWaste management94
- TargetDiscount department stores79
- Stop & ShopGrocery stores76
- En-Tech Main Office-ClosterSewer construction27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,148 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Closter’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Bergen County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Closter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Closter$1,201,134
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Closter 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.
- Closter17.15%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Closter33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Closter9
Zip codes with a Closter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Closter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.