Typical home value
No current home-value index or recent qualifying sale-price median is available.
Chester
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Housing market
Figures & sourcesTypical market rent
No current market-rent index available; survey rents are not asking rents.
79.1% Owner-occupiedRented 20.9%
Occupied homes · Census ACSACS. American Community Survey: the Census Bureau’s rolling survey. Figures here are five-year estimates, so “2023” means the survey years 2019–2023, not a count taken that year. 2020–2024 · 90% margin: ± 5.5 points
What it costs per month
No monthly cost is worked out for Chester. Zillow publishes no home value here, and there are too few recent qualifying sales to stand a purchase price on. The owner-reported value in the tables is a survey five years old, too old to price a mortgage on.
About this place
Housing profile
Typical household incomeTypical household income. The income of the household in the middle: half of households here earn more, half less. From the Census Bureau’s survey, pooled over five years. Before tax, per year; survey years 2020–2024.Kind of figure: Survey estimate
$171,500± $48,024
hard to tell from most · 19–231 of 562 municipalities
Renters spending over 30%Renters spending over 30%. The share of renting households spending more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. From the Census survey for 2020–2024; not the share of all households.Kind of figure: Survey estimate
75.4%± 18.9 points
hard to tell from most · 259–563 of 563 municipalities
Updated Sep 26, 2026 · first published as 73.0%
Typical home builtTypical home built. The median year one- to four-family homes here were built, among those New Jersey’s property tax records (MOD-IV) give a year for.Kind of figure: Administrative records
1970
newer than most · 197 of 562 municipalities
More about the housing here
Median lotMedian lot. The median lot size of one- to four-family homes here, from the property tax records (MOD-IV). An acre is 43,560 square feet.Kind of figure: Administrative records
0.53 acres
larger than most · 120 of 561 municipalities
Households that ownHouseholds that own. The share of occupied homes lived in by their owners rather than rented out, from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey five-year estimate.Kind of figure: Survey estimate
79.1%± 5.5 points
hard to tell from most · 164–351 of 564 municipalities
Apartment buildingsApartment buildings. Apartment buildings as a share of the residential properties on the tax roll — one- to four-family homes and apartment buildings. It counts buildings, not homes: a 200-unit building counts once.Kind of figure: Administrative records
0.2%
near the middle · 284 of 564 municipalities
Homes standing emptyHomes standing empty. The share of all homes standing empty, including holiday homes and homes for sale or rent.Kind of figure: Survey estimate
2.3%± 2.3 points
hard to tell from most · 174–564 of 564 municipalities
Net homes added per 100 · 2024Net homes added per 100 · 2024. Homes finished minus homes demolished in the year, per 100 existing homes. Uses NJ construction-office reports and the Census housing-unit estimate ending that year. Covers only towns that reported both; a missing report is not zero. A negative value means demolitions exceeded completions. The underlying tables use per 1,000; this banner divides the value and its margin by 10, keeping the same rank.Kind of figure: Calculated here
-0.17± -0.02 per 100 homes
fewer than most · 520–525 of 557 municipalities
Local stories
Prices & paychecks
$659,800 owner-reported home value
Survey values—not current asking prices.
Census ACS · 2020–2024
The homes that sold
Local records unavailable
Coverage limited · no substitute data.
Coverage limited · No matching period
Housing cost burden
63% of renters in the lowest income band are cost-burdened
Up to 30% of HUD area family income · survey estimate.
HUD CHAS · Census ACS · 2018–2022
Buyer financing
Local records unavailable
Coverage limited · no substitute data.
Coverage limited · No matching period
Building & demolition
0 net homes added
Preliminary · missing reports are not zero.
Census BPS / NJ DCA · 2025 · Preliminary
County arrivals & departures
Morris County: 1,398 more tax returns leaving
County context—not town-level moves.
IRS migration · County context · 2022–2023
Getting around
32-minute average commute
One-way mean—not your route.
Census ACS · 2020–2024
Where students go
12% of K–12 students who live here attend a private school
Where students live—charter and vocational schools count as public.
Census ACS · 2020–2024
Water you can check
1 of 2 water systems with past health-based violations
System history—not today’s tap water.
EPA / NJDEP · 2021–2025
Flood exposure & claims
Flood-zone share unavailable
Mapped homes—not an address-specific risk assessment.
Coverage limited · No matching records
Sites & cleanup
4 site cleanups open in NJDEP’s records
Site records—not a property’s exposure or safety.
NJDEP site records · 2026 record snapshot
Power & reliability
390.7 minutes without power per customer
Utility-wide—not this town’s outage record.
EIA-861 · Utility-wide · 2025
Health in context
Morris County: health in context
County estimates—not measurements of this town.
CDC PLACES · 2023 basis · 2025 release
Internet availability
100.0% of mapped locations have a fiber offer
Mapped locations—not households or measured speeds.
FCC provider reports · 2025-12-31 · revised 2026-10-13
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