Hackettstown, New Jersey.
Typical home $468,085 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $2,544 . Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,399 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,244 +3%
- $453,841$468,085 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,745 +32%
- $353,340$468,085 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.
- Hackettstown$2,457
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Hackettstown, NJ rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hackettstown, Warren County, New Jersey
Hackettstown is a town of 10,248 people in Warren County. Half its households earn more than $93,083 a year and half less, against $100,869 across Warren County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hackettstown is a small town in Warren County, New Jersey, with a population that skews somewhat younger than many older homeowners might expect. Household incomes run below the county's, and a modest share of residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters are a real part of the community. Typical home values and rents are both high, and a good number of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and retail. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Hackettstown Medical Center, Mars Wrigley Confectionery US and the Hackettstown Public School District. Commutes are fairly long, and some residents work from home. Unemployment across Warren County has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Stephens State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and Jenny Jump State Forest is another protected area a short drive away. For a day out, Lake Hopatcong, a large reservoir, and Action Park, an amusement park, are each a longer drive away.
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- 3,841households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents 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 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 Hackettstown
- Hackettstown Medical CenterGeneral hospital502FTE
- Mars Wrigley Confectionery USLiquor, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate435
- Hackettstown Public School DistrictSchool district357FTE
- Centenary UniversityUniversity or college343
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing323
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter129
- Riverview PavingResurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway98
- Ancient CrunchGeneral warehousing and storage78
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,983 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of HackettstownRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hackettstown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Hackettstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hackettstown$468,085
- 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 6 Hackettstown listings, and the typical home goes pending in 22 days — 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.
- Hackettstown15.70%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Hackettstown22
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hackettstown72
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hackettstown27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hackettstown$513,721
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Hackettstown102.55%
Zip codes with a Hackettstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hackettstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.