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The median home value in Barnegat, NJ is $508,141 as of 2026-07-31, up 4.43% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$508,141
Year-over-Year
+4.43%
Population
26,713
Barnegat ranks #131 of 184 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 17.8% below the state's city median of $618,410. It sits in Ocean County, where the county-wide median is $552,498.
Median household income in Barnegat is $108,664, so the typical home value is about 4.7× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Barnegat police recorded a violent crime rate of 64 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 79 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Barnegat, that value is $508,141. That's up 4.43% from a year earlier. It is about 17.8% below the typical New Jersey city tracked here.
Homes in Barnegat are cheaper than Ocean County as a whole, where the median is $552,498 — a difference of about 8.0%.
Median household income here is $108,664, so the typical home value is about 4.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Barnegat police reported 64 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 26,713. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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