Hammonton, New Jersey.
Typical home $381,311 (+3.7% in a year). Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,183 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,744 +4%
- $367,567$381,311 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,805 +34%
- $285,506$381,311 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.
- Hammonton$2,001
- 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 Hammonton, NJ rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hammonton, Atlantic County, New Jersey
Hammonton is a town of 14,711 people in Atlantic County. Half its households earn more than $78,087 a year and half less, against $78,050 across Atlantic County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Atlantic County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hammonton is a town in Atlantic County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes sit about level with the county's. The population is middle-aged, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January and some snow, while July is warm and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in Hammonton include the Hammonton School District, Village Super Market and Walmart. Atlantic County has seen little change in the number of jobs lately, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. The Pine Barrens, a protected area, and Wharton State Forest are both a short drive away, which makes them the easy choices for time outdoors. For a bigger outing, Independence Hall, an archaeological site, and the Franklin Institute, a museum, are a longer drive away.
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- 5,721households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Atlantic County had 125,225 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 19 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hammonton Northeast weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hammonton
- Hammonton School DistrictSchool district548FTE
- Kramer Beverage CoBeer merchant wholesalers325
- Pyramid HealthcareResidential mental health and substance abuse facilities262
- Village Super MarketGrocery stores175
- WalmartDiscount department stores156
- Kellogg CompanyFrozen waffles manufacturing136
- Seaside SanitationWaste management100
- Wawa SiteConvenience store67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,546 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of HammontonRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of HammontonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hammonton’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 Atlantic County and the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro.
Hammonton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hammonton$381,311
- 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 Hammonton 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.
- Hammonton21.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hammonton61
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hammonton17
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hammonton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hammonton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.