Great Meadows, New Jersey.
Typical home $473,323 (+1.4% in a year). Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$19 (+1%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $6,458 +1%
- $466,865$473,323 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.
- Great Meadows$2,484
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Great Meadows, NJ rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Great Meadows, Warren County, New Jersey
Great Meadows, in Warren County, had 305 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Warren County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Warren County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Great Meadows is a very small community in Warren County, New Jersey, with a population small enough that most neighbors are likely to know one another. Typical home values here are well above what the county's incomes alone might suggest, and no one in town is recorded as living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January highs only a little above freezing and lows well below it, while July brings warm days. Snow falls through the winter, and the year as a whole is a wet one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Warren County, some of the largest workplaces are the Phillipsburg School District, St Lukes Warren Hospital and Hackettstown Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has more jobs now than it did the year before.
Things to do. Bear Creek runs in or beside town, so a stream is close at hand. A short drive away are Jenny Jump State Forest and Stephens State Park, both protected areas good for walking and time outdoors. Land of Make Believe, an amusement park, is also a short drive away and suits a day out with grandchildren.
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- 0%below the poverty line
What people in Warren County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Warren County had 33,915 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 23 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belvidere Brg weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Warren County
- Phillipsburg School DistrictSchool district729FTE
- St Lukes Warren HospitalGeneral hospital681FTE
- Hackettstown Medical CenterGeneral hospital502FTE
- Mars Wrigley Confectionery USLiquor, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate435
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters390
- Hackettstown Public School DistrictSchool district357FTE
- Centenary UniversityUniversity or college343
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing323
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,001 people in all across the county; Great Meadows has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Great Meadows’ 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 Warren County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Great Meadows home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Great Meadows$473,323
- 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.
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.
- Great Meadows10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Great Meadows5
Zip codes with a Great Meadows address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Great Meadows — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.