Plainfield, New Jersey.
Typical home $516,503 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $2,191 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,662 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,896 +1%
- $513,607$516,503 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $146,236 +39%
- $370,267$516,503 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.
- Plainfield$2,711
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Plainfield, NJ rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey
Plainfield is a city of 54,586 people in Union County. Half its households earn more than $85,908 a year and half less, against $103,202 across Union County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 45% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 55% are rented. Unemployment in Plainfield was 5.4% in August 2026, and Union County had 1.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainfield is a city in Union County with a younger population than much of the country, and many of its households rent rather than own, more than across the county as a whole. Incomes run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many nearby places. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in the building trades, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. The largest workplaces in Plainfield include the Plainfield Public School District, AristaCare at Norwood Terrace and Complete Care Plainfield. Many people commute some distance to work, and only a small share work from home.
Things to do. Most of the better-known places near Plainfield are a longer drive away. Among them are the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, and the Hudson River. Central Park is a garden, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of several large museums within reach.
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- 15,907households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 231,428 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 21 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plainfield weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plainfield
- Plainfield Public School DistrictSchool district1,318FTE
- College Achieve Central Charter SchoolSchool district203FTE
- AristaCare at Norwood TerraceHomes for the elderly with nursing care134
- Complete Care PlainfieldNursing homes114
- Interstate Waste ServicesWaste management93
- Parker Interior PlantscapeMaintenance of plants and shrubs in buildings86
- PlainfieldMail and parcel delivery75
- Cresthaven Academy Charter SchoolSchool district74FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 502 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of PlainfieldRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of PlainfieldRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plainfield’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 Union County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Plainfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainfield$516,503
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Plainfield 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.
- Plainfield17.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Plainfield119
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Plainfield29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Plainfield$507,086
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Plainfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Plainfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07060 | Plainfield | 48,363 | $2,150 | $526,822 |
| 07062 | Plainfield | 15,399 | $2,307 | $496,751 |
| 07063 | Plainfield | 14,235 | — | $489,848 |