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Housing in Three Bridges

A typical Three Bridges home is worth roughly $587,000

Typical home value
$587K
NJ $580K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$2,330
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$10,001
NJ $9,590
Affordability

What it takes to buy in Three Bridges

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$364,000
Typical Three Bridges home $587K

That’s $223K short of a typical Three Bridges home.

The typical home, each month
$3,910
Loan $2,910Tax $830Insurance $170

A two-bedroom rents for about $2,330 a month here, $1,580 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Three Bridges’s typical property tax (1.70% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $2,330

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,690
1 bedroom$1,850
2 bedrooms$2,330
3 bedrooms$2,800
4 bedrooms$3,090
45%
of households rent · NJ 36%
84
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, 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.

The homes

55% of Three Bridges households own their home

Half of Three Bridges’s homes were built before 1971.

Owners and renters
Own 55%Rent 45%

New Jersey: 64% own.

1971
typical home built · NJ 1970
$10,001
median property tax bill · NJ $9,590
1.70%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · NJ 2.11%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Next door

Three Bridges vs. its neighbors

Three Bridges is the priciest of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Three Bridges$587K*—$2,330——
Readington$549K*+7.6%†$2,380174$157,625
Raritan$564K*+8.2%†$2,4104$165,174

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. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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