Hillside, New Jersey.
Typical home $518,575 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $2,350 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,610 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,263 +1%
- $515,311$518,575 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,331 +32%
- $393,243$518,575 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.
- Hillside$2,722
- 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 Hillside, NJ rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hillside, Union County, New Jersey
Hillside is a township of 22,456 people in Union County. Half its households earn more than $99,528 a year and half less, against $103,202 across Union County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Union County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hillside is a township in Union County, New Jersey, and its residents are younger than the typical American. Household incomes run somewhat below the county's, and a good share of homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Most commutes take a while, and a smaller number of people work from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, or in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Hillside are the Hillside Public School District, Hillside Stratas Foods and Brightview, a landscaping company. Unemployment across Union County is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Sports Illustrated Stadium is a short drive away, as is the Statue of Liberty, one of the best known tourist attractions in the country. A longer drive brings you to Central Park, a garden, and to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn warm, so the museums are a good choice on a cold day.
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- 7,032households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 231,428 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 32 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newark International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hillside
- Hillside Public School DistrictSchool district460FTE
- Hillside Stratas Foods217
- BrightviewLandscaping services140
- Bay Crane Service of New JerseyCrane rental with operator129
- RT 22 HondaAutomotive126
- Ewr-primeflight Aviation Services, Inc. Newark Liberty International AirportAirline support services125
- RT 22 ToyotaAutomotive101
- LallypakPrint shops, flexographic95
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,144 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 weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Union County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Union County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Hillside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hillside$518,575
- 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 Hillside listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Hillside22.18%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hillside40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hillside13
Zip codes with a Hillside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hillside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.