Harrison, New Jersey.
Typical home $584,118 (+0.9% in a year), asking rent $2,663 (+1.0%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,424 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,959 +1%
- $579,159$584,118 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,450 +16%
- $505,669$584,118 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.
- Harrison$3,066
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Harrison, NJ rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Harrison, NJ rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Harrison runs $1,890/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $4,553 a month against $2,663 rent: a $3,066 mortgage payment, plus $862 property tax and $625 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Harrison
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,553
- Renting$2,663
- Mortgage only$3,066
Property tax · $862/mo 1.77% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Hudson County, NJ
Insurance & upkeep · $625/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Harrison, Hudson County, New Jersey
Harrison is a town of 19,450 people in Hudson County. Half its households earn more than $93,013 a year and half less, against $91,795 across Hudson County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 21% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 79% are rented. Unemployment in Hudson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Harrison is a small town in Hudson County, New Jersey, and its residents are younger than most Americans, with more people in their early working years than in retirement. Far more households rent than own, so the town feels like one of apartment buildings and rowhouses rather than a place of single-family lots. Incomes are slightly above the county's, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and a fair amount of snow falls most years. Summers are warm, and rain or melted snow is plentiful across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in Harrison are Harrison Public Schools, the Portal North Bridge construction project, and the commercial bakery Tristate Buns. Hudson County has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased from a year earlier. Commutes are long, which fits a town where many people travel out to jobs across the region, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Sports Illustrated Stadium sits in or beside town, so a match or concert is an easy walk or short ride from home. A short drive away are MetLife Stadium and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, along with the Statue of Liberty, one of the best known tourist attractions in the country. A longer drive brings you to Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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- 9,389households
- 51%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 41 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hudson County had 271,856 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 28 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harrison weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harrison
- Harrison Public SchoolsSchool district364FTE
- Skanska Traylor PNB JV / Portal North BridgeBridge construction169
- Tristate BunsBakery products, fresh, made in commercial bakeries109
- East Newark School DistrictSchool district51FTE
- RP BakingBakery products, fresh, made in commercial bakeries28
- HarrisonMail and parcel delivery25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 331 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Harrison’s 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 Hudson County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Harrison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harrison$584,118
- 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.
- Harrison9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Harrison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harrison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.