Rental market · Old Bridge, NJ · Census-designated place
Old Bridge, NJ: average rent, home values, and rental yield
Middle Atlantic · Population 28,236
Why this market does or does not qualify
No Overall City Market Score rank is published. The standardized Buy & Hold screen cannot produce a complete result for this city.
Supported strengths
The city does not have enough measured inputs for two supported score strengths.
Measured weakness
No category weakness can be ranked without a complete score.
Missing screen inputs: City Market Score, investor-entry price estimate. Primary evidenced risk: No scored factor is available to identify a measured market risk.
Data caveat: no missing input is treated as a zero cost. Bring an actual property’s price, rent, taxes, condition, and insurance quote to the calculator.
Why there is no grade
The model refuses to rank a market that is missing one of its core inputs rather than score that input as neutral or fill it in from somewhere else. Here it could not measure the population trend. 10 of the 13 scored factors were measured, and every one of them is shown below with its source and its as-of date.
This is a statement about the data, not about the market. A place with no published rank is not a place we have judged badly.
Measured market data
Measured observations for Old Bridge, shown as context beside the market score (none of it feeds the score), and the model weights are unchanged. These are different measurements from the Census figures in the factor table: the ACS median value is what owners report in a 5-year survey, while ZHVI is a monthly index of typical value; ACS median gross rent is what sitting tenants pay including utilities, while ZORI indexes asking rent on newly listed units. Neither corrects the other. Monthly series, revised in recent months, observed 2026-07, not live.
9 measured Zillow figuresasking rent $2,864/mo · observed 2026-07Show table
| Zillow asking-rent index (ZORI) | $2,864/mo |
|---|---|
| Market heat index | 71 |
| Median days to pending | 24 |
| Share of listings with a price cut | 18.0% |
| Median sale-to-list ratio | 100.3% |
| For-sale inventory | 101 |
| New listings | 40 |
| Median list price | $638,667 |
| Median sale price | $657,500 |
Source: Zillow Economic Research public research data, observation month 2026-07. Zillow is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, Compounding Estates.
Price & rent history
Asking rent $2,940 → $2,906 (2026-01–2026-08)
Home value: no Zillow ZHVI series - Zillow does not cover this city (Census-only). Nothing plotted rather than estimated.
Source: Zillow ZHVI (home value) and ZORI (asking rent) - monthly resolution for the last ~10 years (since 2026-01), quarterly before that. Home value uses the left axis, rent the right; toggle either series, change the range, hover to read any point. Gaps in the source series are left as gaps - never interpolated.
ZIP markets in Old Bridge
1 Census ZIP Code (ZCTAs) officially overlap Old Bridge by land area · 1 data-eligible for subscores. Overlap is Census land-area share, not a population or address share. Each ZIP Code's overall Rental Investor ZIP Score, grade and canonical national rank are shown below (the two component signals, affordability and rental market, are separate percentiles). There is no city-scoped ZIP rank: city overlap isn't a ranking universe, so only the national rank is shown. These ZIP rankings sit in the ZIP universe only, never mixed with, and not directly comparable to, Old Bridge's city ranking. Vintage: the Key metric column below is Census ACS 2020–2024 (5-year), the same survey release as the figures used above for Old Bridge itself; a city and a ZIP Code are different geographies, so the same measure can still show a different number at each level.
1 of 1 overlapping ZIP Code area, scoredgrade, overall Rental Investor ZIP Score and national rank for each, on a separate model from this page's city scoreShow table
| ZIP Code | Overallgrade · natl rank | Tier · overlap | Affordabilitysignal · natl rank | Rental marketsignal · natl rank | Key metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08857Old Bridge | C 54#6,345 nat | RankedPrimary | 13#19,976 of 20,132 · bottom 1% | 57#6,619 of 20,132 · top 33% | 3.7%Survey yield |
Every factor, shown
The Overall score blends three category scores built from thirteen measured factors: Cash Flow (35%), Growth (35%), and Stability (30%). The table shows every factor; the tag on each percentile marks which category a scored factor feeds. Untagged factors are shown for context but not scored. Every percentile also carries the band it falls in - top 10%, top quartile, above or below the national median, bottom quartile, bottom 10% - so a bare ordinal still reads as a position; the band restates that percentile and adds nothing to it. Every value carries its source and as-of date. How the score works.
| Factor | Value | National percentile | Source · as-of | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expense-adjusted yield fallback | 3.6% | - | Census ACS · ACS 5-yr 2020-2024 | Annual rent divided by price, net of a modeled vacancy, tax, capex, and management allowance: the core of the Cash Flow category and what the score is actually computed from. The unadjusted gross yield is shown elsewhere on this page. |
| Price to income fallback | 4.3x | - | Census ACS · ACS 5-yr 2020-2024 | Home price over local median income. Lower is cheaper relative to what people earn. Part of the Cash Flow category. |
| Population growth | not measured | - | derived | Census population trend for the place, capped at 4.5%/yr before scoring (diminishing returns above that rate): the heaviest factor in the Growth category. |
| Job growth | 0.3%/yr | - | BLS LAUS (county) · BLS LAUS county annual 2019→2025 (pre-COVID anchor; 2025 is an 11-month average) + BLS LAUS county annual 2015→2025 | County employment trend, capped at 4.0%/yr before scoring (diminishing returns above that rate). A Growth-category factor. |
| Income growth | 1.2%/yr | - | Census ACS · ACS 5-yr 2020-2024 | Local median-income trend. A Growth-category factor. |
| Rent growth fallback | 6.0%/yr | - | Census ACS · ACS 5-yr 2020-2024 | A 40/60 blend of 3-year and 10-year rent trend (the model's own weighting). A Growth-category factor. |
| Home-value growth fallback | 5.8%/yr | - | Census ACS · ACS 5-yr 2020-2024 | A 40/60 blend of 3-year and 10-year price trend (the model's own weighting). A small Growth-category factor. |
| Unemployment | 5.2% | - | BLS LAUS (county) · BLS LAUS county annual 2025 (11-month average) | County unemployment rate. Lower is steadier, a Stability-category factor. |
| Rental vacancy | 5.3% | - | Census ACS B25004 · ACS 5-yr 2020-2024 | Share of rentals empty. Lower means more pricing power. A Stability-category factor. |
| Property tax rate | 1.8% | - | Census ACS B25103/B25077 · ACS 5-yr 2020-2024 | Median tax over median value. A direct drag on cash flow, scored in the Stability category as carrying-cost burden. |
| Months of supply | 3.3 mo | - | Redfin Data Center · 2026-05-01 | Listings over sales pace. Under about 4 is a seller market, over 6 a buyer market. A Stability-category factor. |
| Days on market | 64 days | - | Redfin Data Center · 2026-05-01 | How fast homes sell. Lower means more liquidity and an easier exit. Shown for context, not scored. |
| Sale-to-list ratio | 101.5% | - | Redfin Data Center · 2026-05-01 | Sale price over asking. Above 100% means homes clear over ask. Shown for context, not scored. |
| Net domestic migration | -9.2/1k | - | Census PEP (county) · PEP vintage 2025 | Net people moving in or out of the county, per 1,000 residents. Shown for context, not scored. |
| Building permits | 13.7/1k | - | Census BPS (county) · BPS 2025 | New-construction permits per 1,000 homes. More means more supply coming. Shown for context, not scored. |
| Rent burden | 29% | - | Census ACS B25071 · ACS 5-yr 2020-2024 | Median rent as a share of income. Higher means less headroom for increases. Shown for context, not scored. |
| Median year built | 1966 | - | Census ACS B25035 · ACS 5-yr 2020-2024 | Age of the housing stock. Older stock carries more capex. Shown for context, not scored. |
| Max drawdown | not measured | - | derived | Worst peak-to-trough home-value decline on record. Shown for context, not scored. |
| Violent crime | not reported | - | FBI CDE | No agency reported this place to the FBI. We never impute a crime number; where it is missing, the Stability category renormalizes over its remaining factors. |
- † Job growth and unemployment are county-level (BLS LAUS, county FIPS 34023); large multi-county cities inherit their dominant county’s figures.
- Yield uses ACS median gross rent and home value (Census survey data, 2020–2024 average) because Zillow does not cover this city - not directly comparable to Zillow-based yields.
- Data flag: cashYield: ACS fallback (no Zillow rent+value).
- Data flag: rentGrowth: ACS CAGR fallback.
- Data flag: appreciation: ACS CAGR fallback.
- Data flag: popGrowth: missing (place not in PEP - CDP or unincorporated).
Where to go next from Old Bridge
Every link below is this market's own data taken one step further: its neighbours in the ranking, the same numbers side by side, or the same numbers in a calculator you can change.
Nearby in the New Jersey rankings, and national look-alikes
- Palmyra, NJGrade A · score 62/100 · yield 8.7% · $314,179 · #576 nationalZillow ZHVI $101k (2000) to $314k (2026), +211%
- Waldwick, NJGrade A · score 61/100 · yield 7.0% · $764,191 · #643 nationalZillow ZHVI $230k (2000) to $764k (2026), +232%
- Beachwood, NJGrade A · score 60/100 · yield 7.9% · $471,777 · #701 nationalZillow ZHVI $109k (2000) to $472k (2026), +332%
- Pine Hill, NJGrade A · score 58/100 · yield 8.3% · $287,614 · #861 nationalZillow ZHVI $85k (2000) to $288k (2026), +240%
Compare Old Bridge head to head
- Old Bridge vs PalmyraThe pre-filled matchup: nearest in-state rank and closest national grade.
- Old Bridge vs Waldwick, NJGrade A · yield 7.0%
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Underwrite an Old Bridge deal
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