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Bergen Hill

Data-driven profile of Bergen Hill, Jersey City. 3,314 properties, median sale $550,000. Updated 2026.

3,314Properties
$550,000Median Sale (2023-26)
$645,464Avg Assessment
1919Avg Year Built
$488Price/SqFt (2025)
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$550,000
Median Sale Price
+100%
Price/SqFt since 2015
$244 → $488
893
Sales since 2020
72.7%
Assessment-to-Sale Ratio
Sell 27% above assessed
$12,968
Avg Annual Tax
2.01%
Effective Tax Rate
Price per Square Foot Trend

Price / SqFt by Year

+100% over 11 years

Price per sqft normalizes for building size and filters out portfolio-sale outliers.

$244
2015
$247
2016
$269
2017
$633
2018
$311
2019
$333
2020
$348
2021
$365
2022
$379
2023
$397
2024
$488
2025
Height = price per sqft (max = $633 in 2018)

Price/SqFt vs General Inflation

+64% real gain

Both indexed to 100 in 2015. Property prices grew 2.8× faster than CPI.

100 150 200 250 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 200 136
Price/sqft (+100%) US CPI inflation (+36%)
Show full sale data table
YearSalesAvg PricePrice/SqFt
201564$356,408$244
201698$321,268$247
2017110$363,600$269
2018126$650,090$633
2019105$367,111$311
202083$458,945$333
2021148$444,203$348
2022135$445,968$365
2023112$549,093$379
2024145$559,715$397
2025153$593,705$488
202629$581,500$395
Property Composition

Property Class Mix

Residential
1,998 (60.3%)
Vacant Land
867 (26.2%)
Commercial
299 (9.0%)
Apartment
138 (4.2%)
Industrial
12 (0.4%)

Condo vs Non-Condo

1,054 condos (32%)
2,260 non-condo (68%)
Building Stock

Building Age Distribution

1900-19
762 (23%)
1920-39
571 (17%)
1940-59
74 (2%)
1960-79
19 (1%)
1980-99
40 (1%)
2000-19
113 (3%)
2020+
112 (3%)
Pre-1900
613 (18%)
Unknown
1,010 (30%)

Size Distribution

<1,000 sqft
971 (29%)
1-2K sqft
1,071 (32%)
2-3K sqft
417 (13%)
3-5K sqft
213 (6%)
5K+ sqft
24 (1%)
Top Streets

Top Streets by Property Count

StreetPropertiesAvg AssessmentAvg SaleSales (2020+)
Beacon Way 634 $268,553 $417,603 232
Kennedy Blvd 235 $519,111 $474,297 72
Glenwood Ave 184 $419,512 $288,690 48
Fairmount Ave 166 $514,515 $1.1M 40
Belmont Ave 144 $555,121 $623,636 33
Jewett Ave 140 $527,161 $496,632 30
Storms Ave 131 $464,835 $925,270 37
Summit Ave 128 $669,650 $765,980 23
Bergen Ave 120 $1.0M $811,451 27
Duncan Ave 118 $633,981 $312,474 26

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