Toms River, NJ Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price & Sales Trends

If you invest in or around Toms River, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Toms River sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of August 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 835
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $412,500
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $315,200 and $564,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 835 closed sales in Toms River over the last six months, with a median closing price of $412,500. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $315,200 and $564,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings we track, not a complete county record, so treat the count as a large sample of the market rather than every sale that happened.

Median home price in Toms River, NJ (August 2026)

The median home price in Toms River is $412,500, measured across the 835 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $315,200 and $564,000.

Where Toms River sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Toms River over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $315,200 and $564,000. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

The Toms River angle

Toms River tracked 835 closings over six months at a $412,500 median, with the middle half from $315,200 to $564,000. Closings ran 196, 214 and 193 from April through June, essentially flat. Ocean County housing here spans large age-restricted developments, postwar bayfront neighborhoods and inland subdivisions, and the $249,000 quartile gap is mostly the distance between those categories rather than a difference in quality. Flood zone status and elevation carry real dollar weight near Barnegat Bay, so a comp two miles inland is not interchangeable with one on the water.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. The public scoreboard currently shows 3.21% median error across 6,276+ graded closings, across 50 states. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Toms River address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.