Frenchtown, New Jersey.
Typical home $588,050 (+2.9% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,598 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,650 +3%
- $571,401$588,050 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $116,828 +25%
- $471,223$588,050 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.
- Frenchtown$3,087
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Frenchtown, NJ rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Frenchtown, Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Frenchtown is a borough of 1,370 people in Hunterdon County. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Hunterdon County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Frenchtown is a small borough in Hunterdon County, with a population small enough that most days feel quiet and familiar. The population is somewhat older than the national picture, and owners and renters live in the borough in nearly equal numbers. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in banks, insurance and property, and in professional and business services. Across Hunterdon County, the largest workplaces include Hunterdon Medical Center, Ferreira Construction Co and the Flemington-Raritan Regional School District. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of people work from home, while others face a fairly long drive to work.
Things to do. The Lower Delaware National Wild and Scenic River, a protected stretch of river, runs in or beside town, as does Delaware Canal State Park, and Swamp Creek is nearby too. Ralph Stover State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Princeton Art Museum is a longer drive away for a museum visit.
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- 761households
- 51%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hunterdon County had 47,458 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bucksville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hunterdon County
- Hunterdon Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,851FTE
- Ferreira Construction CoConstruction management, highway, road, street and bridge732
- Flemington-Raritan Regional School DistrictSchool district652FTE
- Hunterdon Central Regional High School DistrictSchool district578FTE
- QuVa PharmaPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing486
- North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School DistrictSchool district410FTE
- NicholsonAddition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building351
- ShopRite of Hunterdon CountyGrocery stores343
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,791 people in all across the county; Frenchtown has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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 floodingVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Frenchtown’s census tracts, 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 Hunterdon County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Frenchtown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Frenchtown$588,050
- 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.
- Frenchtown11
Zip codes with a Frenchtown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Frenchtown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.