Weehawken, New Jersey.
Typical home $878,311 (+4.1% in a year), asking rent $3,854 (+2.8%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,264 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $34,448 +4%
- $843,863$878,311 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $162,950 +23%
- $715,361$878,311 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.
- Weehawken$4,610
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Weehawken, NJ rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Weehawken, NJ rose 2.8% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Weehawken runs $2,992/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $6,846 a month against $3,854 rent: a $4,610 mortgage payment, plus $1,296 property tax and $940 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Weehawken
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$6,846
- Renting$3,854
- Mortgage only$4,610
Property tax · $1,296/mo 1.77% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Hudson County, NJ
Insurance & upkeep · $940/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 Weehawken, Hudson County, New Jersey
Weehawken is a township of 17,197 people in Hudson County. Half its households earn more than $127,763 a year and half less, against $91,795 across Hudson County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 30% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 70% 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. Weehawken is a small township on the Hudson River, home to a population that is somewhat younger than in many American towns. Incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Most households rent rather than own, and typical home values and rents are high. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of people work from home. Commutes are long. Among the largest workplaces in Weehawken are the Weehawken Public School District and Greystar. Across Hudson County, unemployment is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs slipped slightly over the past year.
Things to do. The Statue of Liberty, a well-known tourist attraction, is a short drive away. Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are both in or beside town, so a day among gardens and galleries needs little travel. The Guggenheim Museum is a short drive off, for anyone who likes to see more art.
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- 8,588households
- 68%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 27%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 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 70°. About 30 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New York Cntrl Pk Twr weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Weehawken
- Weehawken Public School DistrictSchool district315FTE
- Weehawken182
- Greystar39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 221 people in all. School districts come 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hudson County, 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.
Weehawken home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Weehawken$878,311
- 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 7 Weehawken listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Weehawken15.07%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Weehawken56
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Weehawken19
Zip codes with a Weehawken address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Weehawken — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.