Edison, New Jersey.
Typical home $635,533 (+2.2% in a year), asking rent $2,787 (+2.3%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,806 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,748 +2%
- $621,786$635,533 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $168,073 +36%
- $467,460$635,533 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.
- Edison$3,336
- 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 Edison, NJ rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Edison, NJ rose 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Edison runs $2,340/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $5,127 a month against $2,787 rent: a $3,336 mortgage payment, plus $1,111 property tax and $680 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Edison
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$5,127
- Renting$2,787
- Mortgage only$3,336
Property tax · $1,111/mo 2.10% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Middlesex County, NJ
Insurance & upkeep · $680/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Edison is a township of 107,588 people in Middlesex County. Half its households earn more than $125,145 a year and half less, against $111,549 across Middlesex County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Middlesex County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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. Edison is a large township in Middlesex County, home to more people than most New Jersey towns. Households here earn more than the county as a whole, and few residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renting is common too, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and the town sees a fair amount of snow. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, or in manufacturing. Some of the biggest workplaces in Edison are JFK University Medical Center, the Edison Township School District and Middlesex College. Amazon's warehousing and delivery operations are also among the largest employers in town. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number 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 it is a longer drive away. So are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum, and Central Park, a garden. All of them lie a longer drive away, so a trip there is best planned as a full outing.
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- 38,098households
- 58%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 431,665 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more 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 66°. About 29 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Brunswick Southeast weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edison
- HMH HospitalsCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices3,950
- JFK University Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,363FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,708
- Edison Township School DistrictSchool district2,347FTE
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,453
- Middlesex CollegeTwo-year college1,338
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,220
- Kilmer NJ SDCMail and parcel delivery915
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 104 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,833 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Middlesex 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 Middlesex County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Edison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edison$635,533
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Edison listings, and the typical home goes pending in 33 days — 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.
- Edison19.17%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Edison33
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Edison300
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Edison76
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Edison$608,215
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Edison100.80%
Zip codes with a Edison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Edison
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08817 | Edison | 49,020 | $2,624 | $558,336 |
| 08820 | Edison | 39,978 | $3,165 | $817,591 |
| 08837 | Edison | 19,437 | $2,538 | $524,857 |