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The median home value in Elmwood Park, NJ is $628,943 as of 2026-07-31, up 3.59% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$628,943
Year-over-Year
+3.59%
Population
21,682
Elmwood Park ranks #89 of 184 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 1.7% above the state's city median of $618,410. It sits in Bergen County, where the county-wide median is $793,874.
Median household income in Elmwood Park is $101,740, so the typical home value is about 6.2× 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).
Elmwood Park police recorded a violent crime rate of 221 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,246 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 Elmwood Park, that value is $628,943. That's up 3.59% from a year earlier. It is about 1.7% above the typical New Jersey city tracked here.
Homes in Elmwood Park are cheaper than Bergen County as a whole, where the median is $793,874 — a difference of about 20.8%.
Median household income here is $101,740, so the typical home value is about 6.2× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Elmwood Park police reported 221 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 21,682. 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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