Parlin, New Jersey.
Typical home $545,560 (+5.8% in a year), asking rent $3,014 (+5.0%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,646 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29,874 +6%
- $515,686$545,560 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $152,242 +39%
- $393,318$545,560 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.
- Parlin$2,864
- 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 Parlin, NJ rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Parlin, NJ rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Parlin runs $1,387/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,434 in Jul 2026.
That is $4,401 a month against $3,014 rent: a $2,864 mortgage payment, plus $954 property tax and $584 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Parlin
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$4,401
- Renting$3,014
- Mortgage only$2,864
Property tax · $954/mo 2.10% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Middlesex County, NJ
Insurance & upkeep · $584/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 Parlin, Middlesex County, New Jersey
The Census does not count Parlin on its own, so the figures here are Middlesex County's. Half the county's households earn more than $111,549 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 64% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Middlesex County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Middlesex 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. Parlin is a small community in Middlesex County, New Jersey, where most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Across the county, household incomes are high and few residents live below the poverty line. Typical home values and rents are high, so the area suits people who can afford its costs.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, and manufacturing. Unemployment across Middlesex County has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Many adults hold a college degree, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away, as is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum, and Central Park, a garden. Winters here are cold with real snow, and summers are warm enough to be hot, so the outdoor spots are best visited in the milder months. Bring a coat for winter visits.
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- 307,782households
- 39.5median age
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Middlesex County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 431,665 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more 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 66°. About 29 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Brunswick Southeast weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Middlesex County
- Rutgers University-New BrunswickUniversity or college20,108
- RWJ University Hospital New BrunswickGeneral medical and surgical hospitals5,785
- Novo NordiskCorporate offices5,131
- HMH HospitalsCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices3,950
- Robert Wood Johnson University HospiGeneral hospital3,943FTE
- JFK University Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,363FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,708
- St. Peters University HospitalGeneral hospital2,692FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 735 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 133,588 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Middlesex 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 Middlesex County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Parlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parlin$545,560
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Parlin listings, and the typical home goes pending in 29 days — 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.
- Parlin22.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Parlin57
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Parlin23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Parlin$528,985
- United States$370,717
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Parlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.