Jamesburg, New Jersey.
Typical home $456,415 (+2.4% in a year), asking rent $1,849 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,457 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,826 +2%
- $445,589$456,415 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $151,340 +50%
- $305,075$456,415 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.
- Jamesburg$2,396
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Jamesburg, NJ rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jamesburg, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Jamesburg is a borough of 5,783 people in Middlesex County. Half its households earn more than $110,972 a year and half less, against $111,549 across Middlesex County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jamesburg is a small borough in Middlesex County, with a population on the younger side and most homes lived in by their owners. Household incomes are close to the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities. The Jamesburg Public School District and Compass Group are among the largest workplaces in the borough. The typical commute is moderate, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Thompson Park is in or beside town, a place for walks and time outdoors. A longer drive away are the Raritan River and Lake Carnegie for time by the water, and the Princeton Art Museum for those who enjoy art.
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- 2,033households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 25%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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jamesburg
- Jamesburg Public School DistrictSchool district133FTE
- Compass Group86
- Compass Group28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 114 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jamesburg’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 Middlesex County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Jamesburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jamesburg$456,415
- 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.
- Jamesburg14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jamesburg5
Zip codes with a Jamesburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jamesburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.