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The median home value in Dunellen, NJ is $535,349, up 3.34% from a year earlier.
City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.
Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.
Median Home Value
$535,349
Year-over-Year
+3.34%
Population
8,561
The typical home value decreased by 0.7%, from $539,281 in May 2026 to $535,349 in Sep 2026.
Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.
| Month | Typical home value | Year-over-year change |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | $539,281 | +2.6% |
| Jun 2026 | $545,870 | +2.5% |
| Jul 2026 | $546,695 | +2.8% |
| Aug 2026 | $539,643 | +3.3% |
| Sep 2026 | $535,349 | +3.3% |
Dunellen ranks #113 of 171 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 14.3% below the state's city median of $624,825. It sits in Middlesex County, where the county-wide median is $579,852.
Dunellen police recorded a violent crime rate of 93 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 829 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 Dunellen, that value is $535,349. That's up 3.34% from a year earlier. It is about 14.3% below the typical New Jersey city tracked here.
Homes in Dunellen are cheaper than Middlesex County as a whole, where the median is $579,852 — a difference of about 7.7%.
Dunellen police reported 93 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 8,561. 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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