Median Home Price in Somerville, NJ

The median home value in Somerville, NJ is $542,961, up 2.84% 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

$542,961

Year-over-Year

+2.84%

Population

15,122

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 1.1%, from $549,040 in May 2026 to $542,961 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.

Somerville, NJ monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$549,040	+3.0%
Jun 2026	$556,167	+3.4%
Jul 2026	$554,723	+3.6%
Aug 2026	$552,174	+3.5%
Sep 2026	$542,961	+2.8%

Somerville ranks #106 of 171 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 13.1% below the state's city median of $624,825. It sits in Somerset County, where the county-wide median is $656,346.

Crime in Somerville

Somerville police recorded a violent crime rate of 73 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 747 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 Somerville

What is the average home price in Somerville, 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 Somerville, that value is $542,961. That's up 2.84% from a year earlier. It is about 13.1% below the typical New Jersey city tracked here.

Is Somerville expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Somerville are cheaper than Somerset County as a whole, where the median is $656,346 — a difference of about 17.3%.

Is Somerville a safe place to live?

Somerville police reported 73 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 15,122. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.