Orange, New Jersey.
Typical home $462,121 (-0.7% in a year), asking rent $1,968 (-1.5%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,411 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,077 -1%
- $465,198$462,121 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,086 +28%
- $360,036$462,121 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.
- Orange$2,426
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Orange, NJ fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Orange, NJ fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Orange runs $1,687/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,770 in Jan 2025.
That is $3,655 a month against $1,968 rent: a $2,426 mortgage payment, plus $735 property tax and $495 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Orange
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$3,655
- Renting$1,968
- Mortgage only$2,426
Property tax · $735/mo 1.91% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Essex County, NJ
Insurance & upkeep · $495/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.
Living in Orange, Essex County, New Jersey
The Census does not count Orange on its own, so the figures here are Essex County's. Half the county's households earn more than $80,789 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 45% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 55% are rented. Unemployment in Essex County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Essex County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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. Orange is a town in Essex County, New Jersey, where the typical resident is somewhat older than the typical American in a similar setting. Across Essex County, a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than across the country as a whole, and most homes are rented rather than owned. Incomes and home prices sit within the range one would expect for the area.
Work. Across Essex County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the county added jobs over the most recent year. A typical trip to work takes a fairly long time, and fewer people work from home than in many parts of the country.
Things to do. The Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum, is also a longer drive away. MetLife Stadium, a stadium, is a short drive away. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, so the seasons shape which outings are most pleasant.
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- 319,788households
- 37.7median age
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Essex County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Essex County had 353,038 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 28 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harrison weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Essex County
- United Continental Holdings Inc EWR14,193
- Newark Public School DistrictSchool district6,610FTE
- Pseg6,545
- SBC ManagementAgreement corporation4,520
- UH - University HospitalGeneral hospital3,836FTE
- Montclair State UniversityUniversity or college3,662
- Cooperman Barnabas Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,360FTE
- Newark Beth Israel Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,810FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 370 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 90,862 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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 windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Essex County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Essex County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Orange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orange$462,121
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Orange listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Orange17.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Orange65
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Orange12
Zip codes with a Orange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orange — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.