Sewell, New Jersey.
Typical home $435,498 (+4.6% in a year), asking rent $2,474 . Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$242 (+12%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $19,127 +5%
- $416,371$435,498 since Sep 2025
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.
- Sewell$2,286
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sewell, NJ rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sewell, Gloucester County, New Jersey
Sewell, in Gloucester County, had 3,346 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $140,600 a year and half less, against $105,115 across Gloucester County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 100% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 0% are rented. Unemployment in Gloucester County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gloucester County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sewell is a small community in Gloucester County, New Jersey, where every home is lived in by its owners and very few households live below the poverty line. Household incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values and rents are on the high side. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying above freezing, while July brings hot summer afternoons.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Some of the largest workplaces in Sewell are Target, Penske Logistics and Wawa. Commutes are fairly ordinary in length, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Lincoln Financial Field and Citizens Bank Park, both stadiums, are a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Independence Hall, an archaeological site, and to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Franklin Institute, another museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 49%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What people in Gloucester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gloucester County had 128,002 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glassboro Northeast weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sewell
- TargetDiscount department stores258
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter144
- SewellMail and parcel delivery84
- Wawa SiteConvenience store29
- Penske LogisticsTransportation22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 537 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Sewell’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 Gloucester County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Sewell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sewell$435,498
- 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 4 Sewell listings, and the typical home goes pending in 14 days — 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.
- Sewell24.98%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Sewell14
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sewell103
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sewell49
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Sewell102.02%
Zip codes with a Sewell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sewell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.