A typical Rockleigh home is worth roughly $2,000,000
Home prices around Rockleigh have risen about 41% over the past 5 years. Builders were permitted 4 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Rockleigh?
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What it takes to buy in Rockleigh
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That’s $1.65M short of a typical Rockleigh home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $2,500 a month here, $11,500 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the New Jersey typical property tax (2.11% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
4 of Rockleigh’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Rockleigh’s homes were built before 1965.
New Jersey: 64% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
Home prices up 41% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Rockleigh rose 41% over the past 5 years, slower than across New Jersey (63%). Last year prices fell 0.8%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Rockleigh, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A two-bedroom rents for about $2,500
Renters already here pay a median of $3,501.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Bergen-Passaic, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
4 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 4 new homes in Rockleigh in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Rockleigh has permitted 16 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Rockleigh's population fell by 124 even though 14 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. Across New Jersey: 2 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 5 | 5 | 0 | $2.6 million |
| 2025 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $307,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $680,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $938,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $938,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $70,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $1.9 million |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $437,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $355,000 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $709,000 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $400,000 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $400,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Rockleigh vs. its neighbors
Rockleigh is the 2nd priciest of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.