Flanders, New Jersey.
Typical home $653,365 (+1.7% in a year), asking rent $2,318 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$123 (+4%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $10,705 +2%
- $642,660$653,365 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.
- Flanders$3,429
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Flanders, NJ rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Flanders, Morris County, New Jersey
Flanders, in Morris County, had 9,832 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $147,367 a year and half less, against $137,326 across Morris County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Morris County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Flanders is a community in Morris County where households tend to earn more than the county as a whole, and few people live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are somewhat older than in many places, with a majority of adults holding a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and retail. In Flanders itself, the largest workplaces include the Mount Olive Township School District, Benjamin Moore & Co and Weis Markets. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Black River Wildlife Management Area is a protected area in or beside town, good for time outdoors. A short drive away are Lake Hopatcong, a reservoir, and Willowwood Arboretum, a botanical garden. Hopatcong State Park, another protected area, is also a short drive away.
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- 3,710households
- 54%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morris County had 301,376 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Andover Aeroflex Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Flanders
- Mount Olive Township School DistrictSchool district1,022FTE
- Benjamin Moore & CoProduct testing laboratories or services208
- Wicklow & LauranoExcavation contractors120
- Weis MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery76
- Eastern Contractor ServicesInsulation contractors68
- Triumph PlasticsFlexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing60
- Wawa SiteConvenience store57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 589 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Flanders’ 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 Morris County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Flanders home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Flanders$653,365
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Flanders 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.
- Flanders13.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Flanders23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Flanders11
Zip codes with a Flanders address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Flanders — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.