Landing, New Jersey.
. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,729 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
Living in Landing, Morris County, New Jersey
Landing, in Morris County, had 4,296 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $128,068 a year and half less, against $137,326 across Morris County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Morris County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Landing is a small community in Morris County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and the population is middle-aged. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July; precipitation is steady through the year, with a fair share arriving as snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The commute is a long one, though a good number of people work from home. Across Morris County, some of the largest workplaces are Morristown Medical Center, Novartis Pharmaceutical US Headquarters and UPS.
Things to do. Water is close at hand: Hopatcong State Park and Lake Musconetcong are in or beside town, and Lake Hopatcong, a large reservoir, is a short drive away. Bertrand Island Amusement Park is also in or beside town. For a day out, The Newark Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 1,596households
- 8%below the poverty line
- 41 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morris County had 301,376 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Andover Aeroflex Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morris County
- Skanska USA BuildingConstruction management, commercial and institutional building5,854
- Morristown Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,384FTE
- Novartis Pharmaceutical US HeadquartersPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing3,887
- Novartis Pharmaceutical Sales ForcePharmaceutical preparations manufacturing3,311
- Zelis HealthcareOffice automation computer systems integration design services2,482
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,591
- Greystone Park Psych. HospitalPsychiatric hospital1,480FTE
- St. Clares HospitalGeneral hospital1,458FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 426 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 82,478 people in all across the county; Landing has none of its own. Hospitals come 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 high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Landing’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 Morris County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Landing home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Landing15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Landing6
Zip codes with a Landing address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Landing — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.