Pompton Lakes, New Jersey.
Typical home $557,134 (+4.2% in a year), asking rent $2,100 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,702 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,514 +4%
- $534,620$557,134 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $147,855 +36%
- $409,279$557,134 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.
- Pompton Lakes$2,924
- 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 Pompton Lakes, NJ rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pompton Lakes, Passaic County, New Jersey
Pompton Lakes is a borough of 11,127 people in Passaic County. Half its households earn more than $124,454 a year and half less, against $87,522 across Passaic County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Passaic County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pompton Lakes is a borough in Passaic County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is valued comfortably above what many older homeowners in the region would have paid decades ago.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Within the borough, the largest workplaces include the Pompton Lakes School District, TPS Group Holdings, a gift and souvenir retailer, and Haas Construction Management. The commute is fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The best-known nearby places are all a longer drive away. They include the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum, and Central Park, a garden. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow mixing with rain through the year, while summers turn warm, so day trips are easiest in the milder seasons.
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- 4,248households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Passaic County had 174,268 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wanaque Raymond Dam weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pompton Lakes
- Pompton Lakes School DistrictSchool district307FTE
- TPS Group HoldingsGift novelty and souvenir retail store28
- Haas Construction ManagementConstruction management, commercial and institutional building24
- Mustang ContractingDemolition contractor24
- Pompton LakesMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 97 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 in parts of Pompton LakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pompton Lakes’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Passaic County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Pompton Lakes home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pompton Lakes$557,134
- 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 7 Pompton Lakes listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Pompton Lakes13.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pompton Lakes36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pompton Lakes13
Zip codes with a Pompton Lakes address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pompton Lakes — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.