Helmetta, New Jersey.
Typical home $428,184 (+2.0% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,221 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,350 +2%
- $419,834$428,184 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,811 +30%
- $329,373$428,184 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.
- Helmetta$2,247
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Helmetta, NJ rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Helmetta, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Helmetta is a borough of 2,455 people in Middlesex County. Half its households earn more than $98,952 a year and half less, against $111,549 across Middlesex County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Middlesex County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Helmetta is a small borough in Middlesex County, home to a modest population. Residents are somewhat younger than you might expect for a quiet town, and incomes run below the county's, with few households living below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Across Middlesex County, some of the largest workplaces are Rutgers University-New Brunswick, RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick and Novo Nordisk. The typical commute is a long one, and a number of residents work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. The closest of the places worth knowing is the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, a museum a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Princeton Art Museum, another museum, and to the Raritan River, which suits a day by the water. The Statue of Liberty, one of the best known tourist attractions in the country, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,074households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 431,665 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 29 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Brunswick Southeast weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Middlesex County
- Rutgers University-New BrunswickUniversity or college20,108
- RWJ University Hospital New BrunswickGeneral medical and surgical hospitals5,785
- Novo NordiskCorporate offices5,131
- HMH HospitalsCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices3,950
- Robert Wood Johnson University HospiGeneral hospital3,943FTE
- JFK University Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,363FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,708
- St. Peters University HospitalGeneral hospital2,692FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 735 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 133,588 people in all across the county; Helmetta has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Helmetta’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 Middlesex County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Helmetta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Helmetta$428,184
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
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.
- Helmetta12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Helmetta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Helmetta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.