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The median home value in Clifton, NJ is $618,464 as of 2026-07-31, up 3.84% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$618,464
Year-over-Year
+3.84%
Population
89,870
Clifton ranks #92 of 184 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits in line with the state's city median of $618,410. It sits in Passaic County, where the county-wide median is $605,390.
Median household income in Clifton is $98,237, so the typical home value is about 6.3× 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).
Clifton police recorded a violent crime rate of 166 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,266 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 Clifton, that value is $618,464. That's up 3.84% from a year earlier. It is in line with the typical New Jersey city tracked here.
Homes in Clifton are more expensive than Passaic County as a whole, where the median is $605,390 — a difference of about 2.2%.
Median household income here is $98,237, so the typical home value is about 6.3× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Clifton police reported 166 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 89,870. 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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