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The median home value in South Amboy, NJ is $532,378 as of 2026-07-31, up 2.25% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$532,378
Year-over-Year
+2.25%
Population
10,781
South Amboy ranks #122 of 184 New Jersey cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 13.9% below the state's city median of $618,410. It sits in Middlesex County, where the county-wide median is $591,891.
Median household income in South Amboy is $91,997, so the typical home value is about 5.8× 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).
South Amboy police recorded a violent crime rate of 139 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,391 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 South Amboy, that value is $532,378. That's up 2.25% from a year earlier. It is about 13.9% below the typical New Jersey city tracked here.
Homes in South Amboy are cheaper than Middlesex County as a whole, where the median is $591,891 — a difference of about 10.1%.
Median household income here is $91,997, so the typical home value is about 5.8× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
South Amboy police reported 139 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 10,781. 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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