Median Home Price in Hightstown, NJ

The median home value in Hightstown, NJ is $468,108, up 3.74% from a year earlier.

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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

$468,108

Year-over-Year

+3.74%

Population

5,970

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 1.0%, from $472,683 in May 2026 to $468,108 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.

Hightstown, NJ monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$472,683	+4.0%
Jun 2026	$485,960	+4.4%
Jul 2026	$478,727	+4.5%
Aug 2026	$469,772	+4.2%
Sep 2026	$468,108	+3.7%

Hightstown ranks #131 of 171 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 25.1% below the state's city median of $624,825. It sits in Mercer County, where the county-wide median is $439,984.

Crime in Hightstown

Hightstown police recorded a violent crime rate of 100 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 653 per 100,000.

Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).

Common questions about Hightstown

What is the average home price in Hightstown, NJ?

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 Hightstown, that value is $468,108. That's up 3.74% from a year earlier. It is about 25.1% below the typical New Jersey city tracked here.

Is Hightstown expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Hightstown are more expensive than Mercer County as a whole, where the median is $439,984 — a difference of about 6.4%.

Is Hightstown a safe place to live?

Hightstown police reported 100 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 5,970. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.