Sewaren, New Jersey.
Typical home $534,054 (+3.9% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,614 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,240 +4%
- $513,814$534,054 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $155,814 +41%
- $378,240$534,054 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.
- Sewaren$2,803
- 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 Sewaren, NJ rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sewaren, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Sewaren, in Middlesex County, had 2,885 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $108,948 a year and half less, against $111,549 across Middlesex County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Middlesex County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Middlesex County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sewaren is a small community in Middlesex County, home to a modest number of people. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. A typical home here is worth a good deal, and a fair number of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while summers turn hot by July and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and manufacturing also employing many. Across Middlesex County, some of the largest workplaces are Rutgers University-New Brunswick, RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick and Novo Nordisk. A good number of people here work from home, and the county has seen jobs grow only slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Most of the better-known places nearby are a longer drive away. The Statue of Liberty is a famous tourist attraction, and the Hudson River runs along the same stretch of coast. Among the museums within a longer drive, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the best known, and Central Park offers garden and open space.
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- 1,291households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 17%work from home
What people in Middlesex County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 431,665 jobs in 2025, 0.3% 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Middlesex County
- Rutgers University-New BrunswickUniversity or college20,108
- RWJ University Hospital New BrunswickGeneral medical and surgical hospitals5,785
- Novo NordiskCorporate offices5,131
- HMH HospitalsCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices3,950
- Robert Wood Johnson University HospiGeneral hospital3,943FTE
- JFK University Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,363FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,708
- St. Peters University HospitalGeneral hospital2,692FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 735 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 133,588 people in all across the county; Sewaren has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sewaren’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 Middlesex County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Sewaren home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sewaren$534,054
- 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.
- Sewaren9
Zip codes with a Sewaren address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sewaren — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.