Springfield, New Jersey.
Typical home $702,356 (+0.5% in a year), asking rent $2,617 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,040 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,209 +0%
- $699,147$702,356 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $188,068 +37%
- $514,289$702,356 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.
- Springfield$3,686
- 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 Springfield, NJ rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Springfield, Union County, New Jersey
Springfield, in Union County, had 1,518 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Union County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Union 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springfield is a small New Jersey community in Union County, with a population that is small even by the standards of the area around it. Residents are older than the typical American, and the households here are notably well off, with no one counted below the poverty line. Homes and rents run expensive, and winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly warm. A typical drive to work is a short one.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in shops. In Springfield itself, the largest workplaces include the Springfield Public School District, the Internal Revenue Service and Wm Blanchard Co, a construction management firm. Across Union County, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Sports Illustrated Stadium is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Statue of Liberty, one of the best known tourist attractions in the country, and to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum. Central Park, a famous garden in the middle of that city, is also a longer drive.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Union County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 231,428 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 68°. About 26 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cranford weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Springfield
- Springfield Public School DistrictSchool district325FTE
- Diamond CommunicationsReal estate rental or leasing156
- Wm Blanchard CoConstruction management, commercial and institutional building108
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury51
- Spirit Logistics NetworkGeneral freight trucking, local42
- Springfield CarriersMail and parcel delivery30
- Wonder22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 358 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Springfield’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 Union County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Springfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springfield$702,356
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Springfield 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.
- Springfield16.00%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Springfield38
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Springfield15
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Springfield$670,800
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Springfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.