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The median home value in Oakland, NJ is $780,685 as of 2026-07-31, up 7.15% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$780,685
Year-over-Year
+7.15%
Population
12,944
Oakland ranks #52 of 184 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 26.2% 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 Oakland is $162,019, so the typical home value is about 4.8× 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).
Oakland police recorded a violent crime rate of 31 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 340 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 Oakland, that value is $780,685. That's up 7.15% from a year earlier. It is about 26.2% above the typical New Jersey city tracked here.
Homes in Oakland are cheaper than Bergen County as a whole, where the median is $793,874 — a difference of about 1.7%.
Median household income here is $162,019, so the typical home value is about 4.8× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Oakland police reported 31 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 12,944. 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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