Roseland, New Jersey.
Typical home $820,176 (+2.9% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,404 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,974 +3%
- $797,202$820,176 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $220,072 +37%
- $600,103$820,176 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.
- Roseland$4,305
- 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 Roseland, NJ rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roseland, Essex County, New Jersey
Roseland is a borough of 6,299 people in Essex County. Half its households earn more than $164,458 a year and half less, against $80,789 across Essex County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Essex County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roseland is a small borough in Essex County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live there tend to be older than in most places. Incomes are well above the county's, very few residents live below the poverty line, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Typical home values are high.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Some of the largest workplaces in Roseland itself are Automatic Data Processing, the Roseland School District and B&G Foods. The typical commute is fairly long, and a good number of people work from home. Across Essex County, unemployment is lower than a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Central Park, a garden. All are a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
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- 2,513households
- 72%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Essex County had 353,038 jobs in 2025, 1.1% 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 86° and lows near 64°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Essex Fells Service Bldg weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Roseland
- Automatic Data ProcessingAutomated data processing services1,582
- Care Options for KidsHome health247
- Roseland School DistrictSchool district92FTE
- Roseland OpCoAssisted living facilities for the elderly84
- Sodexo at CK 5 Roseland PartnersFood service contractors77
- B&G FoodsJellies and jams manufacturing71
- TransdevSpecial needs transportation45
- SRM EasternReady-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,128 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 floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Roseland’s 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 Essex County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Roseland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roseland$820,176
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Roseland 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.
- Roseland23.77%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Roseland25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Roseland10
Zip codes with a Roseland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roseland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.