Malaga, New Jersey.
Typical home $317,673 (+2.1% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$121 (+8%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $6,623 +2%
- $311,051$317,673 since Sep 2025
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.
- Malaga$1,667
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Malaga, NJ rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Malaga, Gloucester County, New Jersey
Malaga, in Gloucester County, had 1,475 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Gloucester County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gloucester County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Malaga is a small community in Gloucester County, home to far fewer people than the larger towns around it. Winters are cold, with highs that stay low and nights that dip well below freezing in January, and a modest amount of snow falls each year. Summers turn properly hot by July, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Across Gloucester County, some of the largest workplaces are Rowan University, Amazon and Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and hardly anyone works from home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the county's jobs have grown over the past year even as unemployment has eased.
Things to do. The Delaware River is a longer drive away, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, also a longer drive away, is one of the best known art museums in the country. Independence Hall, an archaeological site in Philadelphia, is likewise a longer drive from town. Ball games and concerts are an outing too, with Lincoln Financial Field a longer drive away.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Gloucester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gloucester County had 128,002 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 13 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Woodstown Pittsgrov 4E weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gloucester County
- Rowan UniversityUniversity or college4,191
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,992
- Lourdes Health System - 1600 Haddon AveHealthcare2,644
- TargetDiscount department stores2,507
- Inspira Medical Center Mullica HillGeneral hospital2,037FTE
- Jefferson Hospital Washington TownshipGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,685
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,386
- Monroe Township Public School DistrictSchool district1,379FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 270 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 41,322 people in all across the county; Malaga has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Malaga’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 Gloucester County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Malaga home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Malaga$317,673
- 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.
Zip codes with a Malaga address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Malaga — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.