Newport, New Jersey.
Typical home $240,089 (-2.3% in a year). Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $87 (-6%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $5,585 -2%
- $245,674$240,089 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.
- Newport$1,260
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Newport, NJ fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newport, Cumberland County, New Jersey
Newport, in Cumberland County, had 487 people in the 2020 census. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Cumberland County was 7.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cumberland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newport is a very small community in Cumberland County, with far fewer people than most towns. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and homes here are typically valued below what many buyers would expect to pay elsewhere in the region. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people travel some distance to their jobs, with only a few working from home. Across Cumberland County, the largest workplaces include Inspira Medical Center Vineland, the Vineland Public School District and the Millville School District.
Things to do. Water and wildlife are the main draws here. Oranoaken Creek, Nantuxent Creek and the Glades Wildlife Refuge are in or beside town, and the Maurice River is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Dover Motor Speedway, a race track, and the Delaware River are both a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 33 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Cumberland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cumberland County had 60,344 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Millville Municipal Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cumberland County
- Inspira Medical Center VinelandGeneral hospital2,882FTE
- Vineland Public School DistrictSchool district1,626FTE
- Millville School DistrictSchool district1,105FTE
- F&S Fresh Foods - VinelandHealth foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, merchant wholesalers1,100
- Bridgeton City School DistrictSchool district1,010FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters462
- Central Garden & Pet459
- Ardagh Glass Packaging BridgetonGlass packaging containers manufacturing375
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 127 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,917 people in all across the county; Newport has one of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Newport’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Cumberland County and the Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ metro.
Newport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newport$240,089
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newport12
Zip codes with a Newport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.