08402
Margate City, New Jersey.
Margate City, Atlantic County, NJ · Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro · population 5,234
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,140 (+221%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $137,398 +14%
- $1,008,174$1,145,572 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $454,165 +66%
- $691,407$1,145,572 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.
- 08402$6,013
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in zip 08402 rose 13.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 08402 rose 20.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 08402 runs $7,574/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $9,432 a month against $1,858 rent: a $6,013 mortgage payment, plus $2,193 property tax and $1,226 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 08402
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$9,432
- Renting$1,858
- Mortgage only$6,013
Property tax · $2,193/mo 2.30% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Atlantic County, NJ
Insurance & upkeep · $1,226/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Margate City, NJ — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 08402
Against the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro and the national benchmark.
- 08402$1,858
- Atlantic City$2,049
- United States$1,932
Typical home value — 08402
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 08402$1,145,572
- Atlantic City$383,091
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
| Miles sorted ascending, activate to sort descending | Zip activate to sort by Zip | City activate to sort by City | Population activate to sort by Population | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 08406 | Ventnor City | 8,972 | $1,973 | $652,993 |
| 1.7 | 08403 | Longport | 1,046 | — | $1,565,023 |
| 2.8 | 08225 | Northfield | 8,456 | — | $397,724 |
| 3.2 | 08221 | Linwood | 6,992 | — | $492,763 |
| 4.0 | 08232 | Pleasantville | 19,887 | $1,970 | $248,515 |
| 4.5 | 08401 | Atlantic City | 38,925 | $1,812 | $219,284 |
| 5.0 | 08244 | Somers Point | 10,659 | $2,007 | $430,394 |
| 6.4 | 08201 | Absecon | 10,412 | $2,011 | $347,031 |
| 6.7 | 08226 | Ocean City | 11,261 | $1,947 | $1,134,075 |
| 7.3 | 08234 | Egg Harbor Township | 47,339 | $2,522 | $411,860 |
| 8.8 | 08203 | Brigantine | 7,674 | $2,340 | $726,571 |
| 9.0 | 08223 | Marmora | 4,048 | — | $508,527 |
| 10.3 | 08205 | Absecon | 28,877 | $2,088 | $335,449 |
| 12.5 | 08248 | Strathmere | 266 | — | $1,690,114 |
| 13.7 | 08230 | Ocean View | 5,700 | — | $487,350 |
| 14.0 | 08241 | Port Republic | 1,076 | — | $438,045 |
| 15.1 | 08330 | Mays Landing | 29,972 | $2,280 | $308,221 |
| 16.0 | 08243 | Sea Isle City | 2,000 | — | $1,537,842 |
| 16.8 | 08319 | Estell Manor | 1,205 | — | $375,889 |
| 16.8 | 08270 | Woodbine | 8,362 | — | $333,200 |
| 17.8 | 08317 | Dorothy | 1,246 | — | $368,925 |
| 18.4 | 08215 | Egg Harbor City | 13,545 | — | $337,501 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.