High Bridge, New Jersey.
Typical home $452,549 (+1.6% in a year), asking rent $2,150 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,329 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,029 +2%
- $445,521$452,549 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $116,739 +35%
- $335,811$452,549 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.
- High Bridge$2,375
- 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 High Bridge, NJ rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in High Bridge, Hunterdon County, New Jersey
High Bridge is a borough of 3,546 people in Hunterdon County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. High Bridge is a small borough in Hunterdon County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. The population is around the middle of the age range, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Poverty is low, and homes and rents here are a good deal higher than in much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Within the borough itself, larger workplaces include Trident Maritime Systems, which makes fabricated pipe and fittings, XP Power, a maker of power supplies, and the High Bridge Borough School District. The commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The South Branch Raritan River runs in or beside town, and Voorhees State Park and Ken Lockwood Gorge, both protected areas, are close by as well. Round Valley Reservoir is a short drive away. Winters are cold, with real snow, and summers turn warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
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- 1,415households
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 22%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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in High Bridge
- Trident Maritime Systems - CACFabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe176
- XP Power - High BridgePower supplies, regulated and unregulated, manufacturing173
- High Bridge Borough School DistrictSchool district66FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 349 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 windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in High Bridge’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 Hunterdon County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
High Bridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- High Bridge$452,549
- 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.
- High Bridge17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- High Bridge5
Zip codes with a High Bridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls High Bridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.