Deepwater, New Jersey.
Typical home $192,761 (+2.9% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$132 (+15%) since Jul 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $5,377 +3%
- $187,384$192,761 since Sep 2025
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.
- Deepwater$1,012
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Deepwater, NJ rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Deepwater, Salem County, New Jersey
The Census does not count Deepwater on its own, so the figures here are Salem County's. Half the county's households earn more than $79,960 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% 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 people in Salem County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Deepwater is a town in Salem County, New Jersey. Across the county, the population is on the older side, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are a little above the county's typical level...
Work. Across Salem County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Shops, and manufacturing are also common employers. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown.
Things to do. Christina River runs in or beside the town, and Fort Christina and the Delaware Art Museum are both a short drive away. Brandywine Creek is also a short drive off for a walk or an afternoon by the water.
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- 24,846households
- 41.9median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Salem County 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 41° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 20 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilmington New Castle County Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Salem County
- PSEG Power Nuclear1,361
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage999
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage445
- Pennsville School DistrictSchool district357FTE
- Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School DistrictSchool district343FTE
- Pittsgrove Township School DistrictSchool district343FTE
- R. E. Pierson Construction CompanyConstruction management, highway, road, street and bridge286
- Last BrandGeneral warehousing and storage271
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,784 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Salem County, 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 Salem County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Deepwater home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Deepwater$192,761
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Deepwater address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Deepwater — 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.