Does the county median tell me what my home is worth?
No. The reported median describes county-wide single-family sales for a particular month. It does not price an individual home or a town. Compare the address, condition and relevant closed sales through the valuation guide; use the monthly series below to understand the wider market.
The seven numbers
| Measure | September 2026 | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Median Sale Price | $835K | Single-family · Bergen County |
| Months of Supply | 2.6 | Balanced ≈ 6.0 months |
| Sale-to-List | 103.4% | Avg. of list price received |
| Median Days on Market | 34 | September 2026 pace |
| Homes Sold / Month | 483 | Bergen County · September 2026 |
| Active Inventory | 1,118 | Up 7.9% year over year |
| New Listings | 669 | New to market · September 2026 |
Source: NJ REALTORS® Local Market Update for Bergen County (the association’s monthly housing statistics, compiled with 10K Research; the public county reports are at njar-public.stats.10kresearch.com), reported month September 2026. County-wide, single-family. These are the same figures the market strip on this site reads, published here as text so they can be quoted without running JavaScript.
Month by month
Every reported month in the series, each figure taken from that month’s own report as first published. The table is rendered at build time from the same file the market strip on this site reads, so a cell and the published data cannot differ.
| Report month | Median Sale Price | Months of Supply | Sale-to-List | Median Days on Market | Homes Sold / Month | Active Inventory | New Listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | 825,000 | 2.2 | 102.4 | 31 | 448 | 948 | 621 |
| October 2025 | 805,000 | 2.1 | 102.7 | 36 | 440 | 915 | 594 |
| November 2025 | 775,000 | 1.9 | 102.7 | 36 | 401 | 799 | 382 |
| December 2025 | 827,139 | 1.4 | 102.6 | 36 | 446 | 599 | 247 |
| January 2026 | 839,500 | 1.5 | 102.4 | 45 | 310 | 621 | 381 |
| February 2026 | 750,000 | 1.4 | 101.2 | 48 | 266 | 605 | 336 |
| March 2026 | 851,000 | 1.7 | 102.8 | 47 | 317 | 727 | 622 |
| April 2026 | 840,000 | 2.2 | 104.1 | 34 | 338 | 938 | 814 |
| May 2026 | 930,000 | 2.4 | 105.3 | 28 | 384 | 1,000 | 775 |
| June 2026 | 946,000 | 2.5 | 105.5 | 28 | 584 | 1,066 | 806 |
| July 2026 | 949,500 | 2.6 | 104.6 | 26 | 620 | 1,120 | 786 |
| August 2026 | 925,000 | 2.4 | 104.1 | 30 | 548 | 1,045 | 578 |
| September 2026 | 835,000 | 2.6 | 103.4 | 34 | 483 | 1,118 | 669 |
Same source as the table above: the NJ REALTORS® Local Market Update for Bergen County, single-family, month by month. A month the series does not hold is marked as such, never as a zero.
The range in the reported series
The lowest median sale price in the reported series was $750,000 in February 2026. The highest was $949,500 in July 2026.
The lowest supply level in the reported series was 1.4 months in February 2026. The highest was 2.6 months in September 2026.
The lowest sale-to-list ratio in the reported series was 101.2 percent in February 2026. The highest was 105.5 percent in June 2026.
The lowest median time on market in the reported series was 26 days in July 2026. The highest was 48 days in February 2026.
The lowest monthly closed-sales count in the reported series was 266 closed sales in February 2026. The highest was 620 closed sales in July 2026.
The lowest active inventory in the reported series was 599 homes in December 2025. The highest was 1,120 homes in July 2026.
The lowest new-listings count in the reported series was 247 listings in December 2025. The highest was 814 listings in April 2026.
What these numbers are, and are not
They are county-wide and single-family. Bergen County contains seventy municipalities, and the Northern Valley alone spans acreage estates, post-war colonials, new construction and Hudson-front condominiums. A county median is a backdrop, not a read on any street or any house.
They are also a lagging report. The reported month is September 2026, published afterwards, and the market a buyer or seller is standing in today is not the market the report describes. Nothing here is a valuation. How a specific property is actually priced is a different exercise, set out in how a home is valued.
The source and its limits
Every market figure on this page comes from the NJ REALTORS® Local Market Update for Bergen County. Nothing on this page is derived from private brokerage data, and no individual transaction, address or client appears here.
Two caveats worth stating rather than smoothing over.
First, where the series comes from. It runs from September 2025 to September 2026, thirteen reported months across thirteen calendar months. Each observation comes from that month’s own published report. The producer reads the Bergen County government’s mirror and falls back to the association’s public report portal when the mirror skips a report. It records only months it can verify against a published report.
Second, the year-over-year labels and the monthly series are different records. Each label comes from the newest report, while each series point comes from that month’s own report as first published. A label compares against the prior-year figure used in the newest report; the historical table preserves the figure collected at the time.
The source can revise an earlier observation as additional records arrive. We have not stored the revised prior-year column, so a difference between a label and the first-to-last change in the table does not, by itself, establish why the numbers differ. Read the labels as the source’s current comparison and the series as the contemporaneous record, without substituting one for the other.
The full month-by-month series is rendered above and published as data at /data/market.json. A missing observation is disclosed explicitly. Neither the county-wide figures nor their changes establish the value, timing or outcome of an individual property transaction.
Related: what a sale costs a New Jersey seller at closing is set out in the closing-cost reference.