Northfield, New Jersey.
Typical home $395,745 (+3.9% in a year). Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,303 (+168%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,024 +4%
- $380,721$395,745 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,767 +47%
- $269,978$395,745 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.
- Northfield$2,077
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Northfield, NJ rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Northfield, Atlantic County, New Jersey
Northfield is a city of 8,434 people in Atlantic County. Half its households earn more than $111,599 a year and half less, against $78,050 across Atlantic County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% 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 restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Northfield is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, a much larger share than you would find across Atlantic County as a whole. Household incomes run well above the county's, fewer residents live below the poverty line, and a good many adults hold a four-year degree. The population skews a little older than the national picture, which suits a quiet, settled community of single-family homes. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, then government and professional and business services. Across Atlantic County, the largest workplaces include MGM Resorts International, Atlanticare Regional Medical Center and Caesars Atlantic City. Commutes are fairly short, and some residents work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though overall job numbers have stayed close to flat.
Things to do. Steel Pier and Gillians Wonderland Pier and Island Waterpark, both amusement parks, are a short drive away. For time outdoors, the Great Egg Harbor River is a short drive away, and the Pinelands National Reserve, a protected area, is also close. Wharton State Forest lies a longer drive away for those wanting a fuller day among the pines.
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- 3,257households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%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 Atlantic County
- MGM Resorts InternationalCasino hotels3,915
- Atlanticare Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,276FTE
- Harrah's Atlantic City2,210
- Caesars Atlantic CityHotel casino1,835
- Ancora Psychiatric HospitalPsychiatric hospital1,634FTE
- Tropicana Atlantic City1,608
- Stockton UniversityUniversity or college1,563
- Egg Harbor Township School DistrictSchool district1,411FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 186 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 36,954 people in all across the county; Northfield has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of NorthfieldRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Northfield’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.
Northfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Northfield$395,745
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Northfield 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.
- Northfield30.84%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Northfield36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Northfield11
Zip codes with a Northfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Northfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.