New home construction is surging across New Jersey — driven mostly by three counties. (See the chart below for home construction data by county.)
Hudson, Ocean and Bergen counties led the state in new home construction from 2020 through 2024, according to a new Rutgers University study that found New Jersey is building homes at its fastest pace in decades.
An annual average of 36,596 new homes was built statewide during that five-year span — more than the annual average for any decade over the past 30 years, Rutgers researchers found…