Leonia, New Jersey.
Typical home $861,308 (+5.6% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,331 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $45,929 +6%
- $815,379$861,308 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $175,613 +26%
- $685,695$861,308 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.
- Leonia$4,521
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Leonia, NJ rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leonia, Bergen County, New Jersey
Leonia is a borough of 9,304 people in Bergen County. Half its households earn more than $129,665 a year and half less, against $124,884 across Bergen County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Bergen County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leonia is a small borough in Bergen County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents tend to be older than in much of the country. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across the country, and winters are cold, with warm summers and a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, professional and business services, and banks, insurance and property. Across Bergen County, some of the largest workplaces are Hackensack University Medical Center, Stryker/Howmedica and The Valley Hospital. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The museums of Manhattan are a short drive away, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, and Central Park is close by as well. The Bronx Zoo is also a short drive away. The Statue of Liberty is a longer drive, for a day out.
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- 3,345households
- 61%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bergen County had 437,006 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer 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 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Teterboro Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bergen County
- Hackensack University Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,606FTE
- Stryker/HowmedicaOrthopedic devices manufacturing6,597
- THE Valley HospitalGeneral hospital3,382FTE
- Englewood Hospital & MED CTRGeneral hospital2,395FTE
- Delaware North CompaniesFood service contractors2,205
- Kedplasma USAPlasmapheresis centers2,177
- Holy Name HospitalGeneral hospital1,959FTE
- Bergen New Bridge Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,723FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 556 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 100,537 people in all across the county; Leonia has two 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leonia’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 Bergen County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Leonia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leonia$861,308
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 10 Leonia listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Leonia10.48%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Leonia23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Leonia8
Zip codes with a Leonia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leonia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.