Hampton, New Jersey.
Typical home $593,748 (+4.5% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,754 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,527 +4%
- $568,221$593,748 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $148,488 +33%
- $445,260$593,748 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.
- Hampton$3,116
- 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 Hampton, NJ rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hampton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Hampton is a borough of 1,438 people in Hunterdon County. Half its households earn more than $67,222 a year and half less, against $141,715 across Hunterdon County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hampton is a small borough in Hunterdon County, home to one of the smaller populations among the county's towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though household incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than that comparison alone might suggest. Winters are cold and snowy, summers warm, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops and in the building trades. Across Hunterdon County, some of the largest workplaces are Hunterdon Medical Center, the Flemington-Raritan Regional School District and QuVa Pharma. The typical commute is a long one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. South Branch Raritan River, Spruce Run Recreation Area and Voorhees State Park are all a short drive away, offering a river, a park and a protected natural area to walk or sit beside. Round Valley Reservoir is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, the Princeton Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 466households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 15%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 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 27 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Flemington Nnw weather station, 10 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; Hampton has one 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hampton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Hunterdon County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Hampton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hampton$593,748
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Hampton 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.
- Hampton15.96%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hampton21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hampton8
Zip codes with a Hampton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hampton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.