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The median home value in Fair Lawn, NJ is $739,017 as of 2026-07-31, up 6.85% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$739,017
Year-over-Year
+6.85%
Population
36,579
Fair Lawn ranks #61 of 184 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 19.5% 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 Fair Lawn is $144,574, so the typical home value is about 5.1× 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).
Fair Lawn police recorded a violent crime rate of 44 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 938 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 Fair Lawn, that value is $739,017. That's up 6.85% from a year earlier. It is about 19.5% above the typical New Jersey city tracked here.
Homes in Fair Lawn are cheaper than Bergen County as a whole, where the median is $793,874 — a difference of about 6.9%.
Median household income here is $144,574, so the typical home value is about 5.1× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Fair Lawn police reported 44 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 36,579. 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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