Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With 11,392 people, 4,028 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $709,207, real estate costs in Ridgefield are among some of the highest in the nation, although house prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive New Jersey communities.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Ridgefield, accounting for 40.51% of the borough's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Ridgefield include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 38.62%), row houses and other attached homes ( 10.34%), and a few large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 10.24%).
People in Ridgefield primarily live in small (one, two or no bedroom) single-family detached homes. Ridgefield has a mixture of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing.
At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home triumphant and, with the help of the GI Bill, built homes by the millions on the edges of America's cities. These homes were predominantly capes and ranches, modest in size, but built to house a growing middle-class as the 20th century became the American century. Ridgefield's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 52.11% of the borough's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Ridgefield include homes built between 1970-1999 ( 20.41%) and housing constructed before 1939 ( 20.27%). There's also some housing in Ridgefield built between 2000 and later ( 7.21%).
Ridgefield's appreciation rate notably has been below the national average for the last ten years. The average annual home appreciation rate in Ridgefield during the period has been just 5.16%, which is lower than 80% of US communities.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Ridgefield's appreciation rate, at 6.12%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Ridgefield's appreciation rate has been 2.82%, which annualizes to a rate of 11.77%.
Relative to New Jersey, our data show that Ridgefield's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in New Jersey.
$709,207
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4,028
$3,558 / per month