Moving to Warren

Shopping for a Warren home? Every home for sale right now, by price band, with what each band closed at over the last year.

Where Warren is

Warren covers just under 20 square miles of ridge and valley in northern Somerset County. Its neighbors are the six towns this site compares it against: Watchung, Green Brook, Bridgewater, Bernards Township, Long Hill and Berkeley Heights. The map still names the old crossroads settlements, Warrenville, Mount Bethel and Mount Horeb, and the town grew around them, which is why Warren has neighborhoods and wooded road frontage instead of a downtown strip. Shopping is a handful of small centers in town, with the Route 22 retail corridor five minutes south.

The commute

Warren itself has no rail station. The trade is simple: a short drive to the train in exchange for more land.

Rail, north side. Four NJ Transit Gladstone Branch stations sit just past the northern edge of town: Berkeley Heights, Gillette, Stirling and Millington. Most Gladstone Branch trains run to Hoboken Terminal, where PATH and ferries cross the Hudson. Riders bound for New York Penn Station typically change at Summit, and the timetable carries a limited number of one seat peak trips. Check the current schedule at njtransit.com before you count on a specific train.

Rail, south side. The Raritan Valley Line runs just below the Route 22 corridor, with Dunellen and Plainfield the closest stations to southern Warren. Those trains run to Newark Penn Station, where riders change for New York.

Bus. Warren runs its own park and ride, a pilot program: Lakeland Bus express trips to the Port Authority Bus Terminal from the Building 300 parking garage at 300 Warren Corporate Center Drive, off King George Road by I-78 exit 36. Morning expresses leave at 6:35 a.m. on weekdays and 7:05 a.m. Monday through Thursday, and evening returns leave the Port Authority at 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. Parking passes go to Warren residents who commute to New York at least weekly, by an annual lottery through the Township Clerk with a $25 administrative fee, and the next application window opens in November. Evening buses are not dedicated runs, so tell the driver to stop at the Warren Park and Ride. Tickets are sold at the Port Authority, from the driver, or at Krauszer\'s on Mountain Boulevard in town. Details and the application are on the township park and ride page, fares and schedules at lakelandbus.com. The NJ Transit 114 also runs along the Route 22 corridor immediately south of town, through North Plainfield, Watchung and Scotch Plains, to the Port Authority.

Driving. I-78 runs along the top of the township with two interchanges serving Warren directly: exit 36 at King George Road and exit 40 at Hillcrest Road. I-287 is a few minutes west on I-78. Newark Liberty International Airport is about 20 miles east, straight down I-78.

The schools

Two districts serve Warren. The Warren Township School District runs four elementary schools, Angelo L. Tomaso, Central, Mt. Horeb and Woodland, plus Warren Middle School for grades 6 through 8. High schoolers attend Watchung Hills Regional in Warren, shared with Watchung and Long Hill. Niche grades both districts A, GreatSchools rates the schools 7 to 9 out of 10, the full 2026 rankings roundup is here, and on the spring 2025 state tests Warren students beat the statewide proficiency rate in every grade and subject, by 25 to 30 points in math.

The Warren schools page carries addresses, budgets, board schedules and enrollment for both districts. Enrollment is growing and the K to 8 district is studying an intermediate school model with a board vote expected September 28. Registration runs through the district offices: warrentboe.org for K to 8, whrhs.org for the high school.

What homes cost

Over the twelve months ending September 6, 2026, Warren recorded 180 closed sales at a median of $1,182,500. Homes sold in a median of 24 days at 99.4 percent of asking. These figures cover every residential property type in the MLS, including townhouses and condominiums, not detached houses alone. Attached product sells below detached in Warren, so a detached only median would run higher.

The market page carries the full current picture and refreshes monthly. Warren by the Numbers holds the long record, built from 4,812 Garden State MLS closed sales going back to 1997. And What Sells Like Mine lets you pick a home type and see what comparable Warren homes actually closed for.

Property taxes

Among Warren homes that sold in the trailing twelve months, the median tax bill was $14,332 on the 179 sales reporting one. The property tax page explains the rate, how the bill splits between the schools, the township and the county, and what reassessment does to it.

The neighborhoods

Most of Warren is detached homes on half an acre or more, but the town also has a dozen townhouse and condominium communities that sell at lower price points and carry the same schools. The neighborhoods hub maps them all, with a page per development covering recent sales and current listings.

Warren against its neighbors

Six side by side comparisons, same data, same method: Watchung, Basking Ridge, Berkeley Heights, Long Hill, Bridgewater and Green Brook. The overview page puts all seven towns in one table.

Civic basics

Warren runs on a five member Township Committee that picks a mayor from its own ranks each January. The government and budget page covers who holds office, what the municipal budget funds and how the land use boards work. The Warren calendar tracks every meeting, school date and recycling pickup in one place.

Settling in

The Somerset County Library System runs a Warren Township branch. Recreation programs, fields and courts run through the township recreation department, and Wagner Farm Arboretum anchors the community garden and events side. The calendar is the quickest way to see what is happening in a given week, and the latest feed is the running record of what this town is actually doing.

Updated September 6, 2026. Market figures on this page refresh with the monthly market update. Transit, school and township details are re-checked against their sources at each update.