Pine Brook, New Jersey.
Typical home $924,720 (+5.1% in a year), asking rent $2,847 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,555 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $44,846 +5%
- $879,874$924,720 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $218,661 +31%
- $706,059$924,720 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.
- Pine Brook$4,854
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Pine Brook, NJ rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pine Brook, Morris County, New Jersey
Pine Brook, in Morris County, had 5,675 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $126,488 a year and half less, against $137,326 across Morris County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Morris County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pine Brook is a small community in Morris County, New Jersey, with a population somewhat younger than the typical older-homeowner town. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and homes here are expensive, with typical rents to match. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and a good share of residents work from home. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a good amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in banks, insurance and property. Within Pine Brook itself, some of the largest workplaces are Avantik, which makes laboratory instruments, Kearfott GND, an aerospace components maker, and Winebow, a wine and spirits wholesaler. Unemployment across Morris County is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are a longer drive away. They include the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum. Central Park, a garden, is also a longer drive from town. Day trips there are the usual way to enjoy them.
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- 2,287households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 28%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morris County had 301,376 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boonton Southeast weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pine Brook
- AvantikLaboratory analytical instruments manufacturing213
- Kearfott GNDAcceleration indicators and systems components, aerospace type, manufacturing212
- WinebowAlcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers159
- Trane Technologies145
- Coherent - AMD (Pine Brook)Silicon wafers, chemically doped, manufacturing140
- Student Transportation of America485410130
- Estes Express Lines122
- Rockline IndustriesFilters, paper, made from purchased paper95
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,451 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pine Brook’s census tracts, 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 Morris County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Pine Brook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pine Brook$924,720
- 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.
- Pine Brook8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Pine Brook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pine Brook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.