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Median Home Price in North Plainfield, NJ

The median home value in North Plainfield, NJ is $494,213, up 0.14% 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

$494,213

Year-over-Year

+0.14%

Population

23,071

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 1.0%, from $499,418 in May 2026 to $494,213 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.

North Plainfield, NJ monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$499,418	-1.4%
Jun 2026	$505,625	-1.2%
Jul 2026	$504,829	-0.7%
Aug 2026	$498,907	-0.1%
Sep 2026	$494,213	+0.1%

North Plainfield ranks #124 of 171 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 20.9% below the state's city median of $624,825. It sits in Somerset County, where the county-wide median is $656,346.

Crime in North Plainfield

North Plainfield police recorded a violent crime rate of 152 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,461 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 North Plainfield

What is the average home price in North Plainfield, 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 North Plainfield, that value is $494,213. That's up 0.14% from a year earlier. It is about 20.9% below the typical New Jersey city tracked here.

Is North Plainfield expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in North Plainfield are cheaper than Somerset County as a whole, where the median is $656,346 — a difference of about 24.7%.

Is North Plainfield a safe place to live?

North Plainfield police reported 152 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 23,071. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.