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The median home value in Hackensack, NJ is $473,422 as of 2026-07-31, up 3.22% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$473,422
Year-over-Year
+3.22%
Population
46,667
Hackensack ranks #142 of 184 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 23.4% below 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 Hackensack is $84,277, so the typical home value is about 5.6× 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).
Hackensack police recorded a violent crime rate of 246 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,025 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 Hackensack, that value is $473,422. That's up 3.22% from a year earlier. It is about 23.4% below the typical New Jersey city tracked here.
Homes in Hackensack are cheaper than Bergen County as a whole, where the median is $793,874 — a difference of about 40.4%.
Median household income here is $84,277, so the typical home value is about 5.6× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Hackensack police reported 246 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 46,667. 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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