Cresskill, New Jersey.
Typical home $1,030,956 (+6.0% in a year), asking rent $4,800 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,830 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $58,658 +6%
- $972,298$1,030,956 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $239,616 +30%
- $791,340$1,030,956 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.
- Cresskill$5,411
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Cresskill, NJ rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cresskill, Bergen County, New Jersey
Cresskill is a borough of 9,155 people in Bergen County. Half its households earn more than $170,376 a year and half less, against $124,884 across Bergen County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cresskill is a borough in Bergen County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where households earn well above the county's typical income and few people live below the poverty line. Residents skew older than in many towns, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Homes are costly to buy and costly to rent, even by the standards of this part of New Jersey. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm, with July the hottest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services, with others in banks, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Within the borough, the largest workplaces include the Cresskill Public School District, Careone at Cresskill, a nursing care facility, and Sunrise of Cresskill, an assisted living community. Commutes are long, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment across Bergen County is lower than a year ago, though the county has a few fewer jobs than it did.
Things to do. Some of the best known places nearby are a longer drive away, among them the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum. Closer to hand, a short drive away, is the Bronx Zoo, a zoo that suits a day out with family, and Yankee Stadium, a stadium for baseball games. Central Park, a garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 3,102households
- 61%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 20%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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cresskill
- Cresskill Public School DistrictSchool district301FTE
- Careone at CresskillNursing care facilities160
- Sunrise Senior Living, LLC.Assisted living97
- Acme MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores82
- Wonder20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 359 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cresskill’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 Bergen County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Cresskill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cresskill$1,030,956
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Cresskill 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.
- Cresskill16.30%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cresskill40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cresskill8
Zip codes with a Cresskill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cresskill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.