Linwood, New Jersey.
Typical home $499,032 (+5.8% in a year). Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,626 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,519 +6%
- $471,513$499,032 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $151,626 +44%
- $347,406$499,032 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.
- Linwood$2,619
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Linwood, NJ rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Linwood, Atlantic County, New Jersey
Linwood is a city of 6,971 people in Atlantic County. Half its households earn more than $156,354 a year and half less, against $78,050 across Atlantic County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Atlantic County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Linwood is a small city in Atlantic County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. The people here are older than in most of the country, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very few residents living in poverty. A large majority of adults have a four-year degree, and typical home values are high.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and government. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Mainland Regional High School, Linwood City School District and Autumn Lake Linwood. The typical commute is fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Steel Pier, an amusement park, and Gillians Wonderland Pier and Island Waterpark are both a short drive away. For time outdoors, the Great Egg Harbor River is also a short drive, and the Pine Barrens, a protected area, are a longer drive. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
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- 2,609households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Atlantic County had 125,225 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Margate weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Linwood
- Mainland Regional High SchoolSchool district225FTE
- Autumn Lake LinwoodSkilled nursing facilities136
- Linwood City School DistrictSchool district132FTE
- Brandywine LivingHomes for the elderly with nursing care90
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs51
- Virtua Medical GroupHealthcare20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 246 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Coastal floodingrelatively high in parts of LinwoodRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of LinwoodRelatively moderate
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of LinwoodRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of LinwoodRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Linwood’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 Atlantic County and the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro.
Linwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Linwood$499,032
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Linwood 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.
- Linwood36.00%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Linwood47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Linwood11
Zip codes with a Linwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Linwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.