Cost of living in Somerset County
Simple answer
A 2-bedroom fair-market rent is $2,623 a month.
That HUD number covers Somerset County, New Jersey, from October 2026 through September 2027. Towns in the county can still have different rents on the ground.
- Studio
- $1,953
- 1 bed
- $2,103
- 2 bed
- $2,623
- 3 bed
- $3,125
- 4 bed
- $3,508
This county is in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area. BEA's 2024 price index there is 112.6 (U.S. = 100).
SNAP income limit in New Jersey · Medicaid eligibility
Towns in this county
- North Plainfield · 22,809 people
- Somerset · 22,720 people
- Hillsborough · 22,585 people
- Bradley Gardens · 14,165 people
- Somerville · 13,410 people
- Franklin Park · 13,211 people
- Bound Brook · 12,219 people
- Martinsville · 11,559 people
- East Franklin · 11,070 people
- Manville · 10,921 people
- The Hills · 10,785 people
- Blackwells Mills · 10,301 people
- Raritan · 8,368 people
- Basking Ridge · 7,917 people
- Bernardsville · 7,916 people
- Green Knoll · 6,789 people
- Franklin Center · 6,646 people
- Bridgewater Center · 6,505 people
- Finderne · 6,489 people
- Watchung · 6,485 people
- Belle Mead · 6,394 people
- Neshanic Station · 5,640 people
- Lyons · 5,187 people
- South Bound Brook · 4,867 people
- Six Mile Run · 2,882 people
- Peapack and Gladstone · 2,571 people
- Ten Mile Run · 2,492 people
- Liberty Corner · 2,325 people
- Weston · 2,105 people
- Middlebush · 2,049 people
- Voorhees · 2,000 people
- Bedminster · 1,670 people