Roebling, New Jersey.
Typical home $299,486 (-0.2% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$880 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $739 -0%
- $300,225$299,486 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,776 +29%
- $231,710$299,486 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.
- Roebling$1,572
- 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 Roebling, NJ fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roebling, Burlington County, New Jersey
Roebling, in Burlington County, had 3,585 people in the 2020 census. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Burlington County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roebling is a small community in Burlington County where nearly everyone owns their home, a far higher proportion than is typical across the country. Residents are somewhat younger than in many older towns, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many places nearby. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Burlington County, some of the largest workplaces are Lockheed Martin's aerospace sites, Amazon's warehousing and Virtua Health. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. The New Jersey State House, in Trenton, is a short drive away and counts among the museums within easy reach. A longer drive brings you to Philadelphia, where Independence Hall is one of the best-known historic sites in the country and the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a major museum. The battleship USS New Jersey, now a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,480households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Burlington County had 214,267 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 25 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Philadelphia/mt Holly Weather Office weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burlington County
- Lockheed Martin Corporation US NJ Moorestown Bortn Lndg Rd (1015)Aeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing3,334
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,556
- Lockheed Martin Corporation US NJ Mount Laurel Tech Campus (1450)Aeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing1,668
- Virtua HealthHealthcare1,515
- Virtua Mount Holly HospitalGeneral hospital1,387FTE
- OpexBelt conveyor systems manufacturing1,277
- Lenape Regional High School DistrictSchool district1,172FTE
- Viking Yacht Company1,172
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 410 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 65,430 people in all across the county; Roebling has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of RoeblingRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of RoeblingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roebling’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Burlington County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Roebling home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roebling$299,486
- 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.
- Roebling9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Roebling address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roebling — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.