Irvington, New Jersey.
Typical home $420,449 (+5.3% in a year), asking rent $1,939 (+2.3%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,362 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,209 +5%
- $399,240$420,449 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,454 +37%
- $305,995$420,449 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.
- Irvington$2,207
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Irvington, NJ rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Irvington, NJ rose 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Irvington runs $1,386/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,436 in Apr 2024.
That is $3,326 a month against $1,939 rent: a $2,207 mortgage payment, plus $669 property tax and $450 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Irvington
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$3,326
- Renting$1,939
- Mortgage only$2,207
Property tax · $669/mo 1.91% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Essex County, NJ
Insurance & upkeep · $450/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 Irvington, Essex County, New Jersey
Irvington is a township of 61,176 people in Essex County. Half its households earn more than $61,609 a year and half less, against $80,789 across Essex County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 30% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 70% are rented. Unemployment in Essex County was 5.7% 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. Irvington is a township in Essex County, and it is a dense, closely built place where most households rent rather than own, a good deal more than across the county as a whole. Residents are younger than in many American communities, and household incomes sit below the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, and in professional and business services. Within the township itself, the largest workplaces include the Irvington Public School District, Richards Manufacturing, which makes electrical conductors, and Alliance Care Rehabilitation & Nursing Center. Commutes tend to be long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Sports Illustrated Stadium is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the best known museums in the country. Central Park, a garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 23,542households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Essex County had 353,038 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Irvington
- Irvington Public School DistrictSchool district1,094FTE
- Richards ManufacturingBus bars, electrical conductors, manufacturing831
- Alliance Care Rehabilitation & Nursing CenterNursing homes199
- Maplewood Beverage PackersIced tea manufacturing126
- University Middle SchoolMiddle schools94
- Bestmark NationalTables, wood, office-type, manufacturing67
- Berkeley Terrace Elementary SchoolElementary schools59
- Chancellor Ave Elementary SchoolElementary schools55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,064 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Essex 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 Essex County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Irvington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Irvington$420,449
- 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 8 Irvington 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.
- Irvington12.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Irvington73
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Irvington21
Zip codes with a Irvington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Irvington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.