Dumont, New Jersey.
Typical home $672,570 (+8.6% in a year), asking rent $2,850 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,997 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $53,363 +9%
- $619,207$672,570 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $184,680 +38%
- $487,890$672,570 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.
- Dumont$3,530
- 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 Dumont, NJ rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dumont, Bergen County, New Jersey
Dumont is a borough of 17,863 people in Bergen County. Half its households earn more than $126,071 a year and half less, against $124,884 across Bergen County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dumont is a borough in Bergen County, a modest-sized community where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where residents are somewhat older than in many American towns. Household incomes sit close to the county's, a little above it, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here are expensive, and renting costs a good deal as well. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn properly warm by July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, and in shops. In Dumont itself, the Dumont Public School District and Stop & Shop are among the largest workplaces. Commutes are fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the Bronx Zoo and Yankee Stadium are both a short drive away, the zoo for animals and the stadium for baseball. A longer drive brings you to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the best known museums in the country, and to Central Park, a large garden in the middle of the city.
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- 6,534households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 12%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 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Teterboro Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dumont
- Dumont Public School DistrictSchool district387FTE
- Stop & ShopGrocery stores124
- DumontMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 150 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 high in parts of DumontRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dumont’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.
Dumont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dumont$672,570
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Dumont 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.
- Dumont20.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dumont29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dumont10
Zip codes with a Dumont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dumont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.