Secaucus, New Jersey.
Typical home $657,676 (+3.7% in a year), asking rent $3,058 (+3.7%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,781 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,455 +4%
- $634,221$657,676 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $138,129 +27%
- $519,546$657,676 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.
- Secaucus$3,452
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Secaucus, NJ rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Secaucus, NJ rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Secaucus runs $2,068/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $5,126 a month against $3,058 rent: a $3,452 mortgage payment, plus $970 property tax and $704 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Secaucus
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$5,126
- Renting$3,058
- Mortgage only$3,452
Property tax · $970/mo 1.77% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Hudson County, NJ
Insurance & upkeep · $704/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Secaucus, Hudson County, New Jersey
Secaucus is a town of 22,181 people in Hudson County. Half its households earn more than $139,821 a year and half less, against $91,795 across Hudson County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Hudson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer 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. Secaucus is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, with a population that is fairly young compared with many places, though not unusually so. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Homes are split almost evenly between owners and renters, and typical home values and rents are both high. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold while summers turn quite warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Among the biggest workplaces in Secaucus are UPS, ZT Systems and the MLB Network. Commutes are on the long side, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment in Hudson County is lower than a year earlier, though the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. MetLife Stadium is in or beside town, so big games and concerts are close at hand. A short drive away are the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, and Central Park, a garden. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also a short drive away, is one of the best known museums in the country.
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- 8,704households
- 63%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 25%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hudson County had 271,856 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Teterboro Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Secaucus
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services2,857
- ZT SystemsComputer servers manufacturing1,861
- THE MLB NetworkTv production752
- Hudson Regional HospitalGeneral hospital510FTE
- Secaucus School DistrictSchool district375FTE
- Rent The RunwayClothing rental362
- TRR Secaucus 35General warehousing and storage354
- F & G MechanicalMechanical contractors338
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,525 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Secaucus’ 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 Hudson County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Secaucus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Secaucus$657,676
- 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 Secaucus 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.
- Secaucus17.16%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Secaucus53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Secaucus11
Zip codes with a Secaucus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Secaucus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.