Wallington, New Jersey.
Typical home $671,941 (+10.9% in a year), asking rent $2,346 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,968 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $65,819 +11%
- $606,122$671,941 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $169,372 +34%
- $502,569$671,941 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.
- Wallington$3,527
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Wallington, NJ rose 10.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wallington, Bergen County, New Jersey
Wallington is a borough of 11,868 people in Bergen County. Half its households earn more than $85,862 a year and half less, against $124,884 across Bergen County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 38% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 62% are rented. Unemployment in Bergen County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wallington is a small borough in Bergen County, close to New York City. Far more of its homes are rented than lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well below the county's. Residents are somewhat younger than in many towns, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Bergen County, some of the largest workplaces are Hackensack University Medical Center, Stryker/Howmedica and The Valley Hospital. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum, and Central Park, a garden, are both a short drive away. MetLife Stadium, a stadium, is also a short drive away. The Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive.
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- 4,726households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bergen County had 437,006 jobs in 2025, 0.3% 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bergen County
- Hackensack University Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,606FTE
- Stryker/HowmedicaOrthopedic devices manufacturing6,597
- THE Valley HospitalGeneral hospital3,382FTE
- Englewood Hospital & MED CTRGeneral hospital2,395FTE
- Delaware North CompaniesFood service contractors2,205
- Kedplasma USAPlasmapheresis centers2,177
- Holy Name HospitalGeneral hospital1,959FTE
- Bergen New Bridge Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,723FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 556 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 100,537 people in all across the county; Wallington has one of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Wallington’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 Bergen County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Wallington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wallington$671,941
- 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.
- Wallington9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Wallington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wallington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.