Northvale, New Jersey.
Typical home $785,291 (+7.4% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,283 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $54,025 +7%
- $731,266$785,291 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $204,856 +35%
- $580,435$785,291 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.
- Northvale$4,122
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Northvale, NJ rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Northvale, Bergen County, New Jersey
Northvale is a borough of 4,761 people in Bergen County. Half its households earn more than $127,625 a year and half less, against $124,884 across Bergen County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Bergen County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Northvale is a small borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, with a population on the older side and incomes a little above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with real snow, summers turn warm, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. In town, the larger workplaces include Inserra Supermarkets, the Northvale Public School District and Inrad Optics. Commutes are fairly typical for the area, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Several well-known sights are within reach of Northvale, though each is a longer drive away. The Statue of Liberty is one of the best known of them, and Central Park is a garden for long walks. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a museum for a full afternoon indoors.
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- 1,715households
- 52%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bergen County had 437,006 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dobbs Ferry-ardsley weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northvale
- Inserra SupermarketsSupermarkets143
- Northvale Public School DistrictSchool district87FTE
- Inrad OpticsPrecision turned product manufacturing63
- American Gas & Chemical CompanyPenetrants manufacturing20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 226 people in all. School districts come 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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Northvale’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 Bergen County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Northvale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Northvale$785,291
- 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.
- Northvale11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Northvale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Northvale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.