Section 8 Housing in New Jersey
28,770 active Housing Choice Vouchers across 3 markets. Rent limits, housing authorities, waitlist status, and voucher rights for every metro in New Jersey.
Voucher-friendly listings in New Jersey
1 listing
Can a landlord refuse Section 8 in New Jersey?
No. New Jersey law prohibits landlords from refusing a renter because they pay with a Section 8 voucher. That protection applies in New Jersey. If you were turned away for having a voucher, that refusal may be illegal.
NJ Law Against Discrimination §10:5-12.5(g)
New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (§10:5-12.5(g)) prohibits housing discrimination based on source of income including Section 8 vouchers. Statewide protection.
View statute →Informational only, not legal advice. Laws change, so verify current status before acting on a rejection or making a leasing decision.
Landlord and investor tools for New Jersey
RentalCalcsFree calculators and guides from RentalCalcs, built by the VoucherMatch team, for landlords deciding whether to accept vouchers.
- Section 8 rent analyzerHUD rent benchmarks and modeled comparisons for New Jersey ZIP codes. Confirm adopted amounts with the agency.
- Compare HUD benchmarks with market rent in New JerseyExplore modeled ZIP comparisons; these do not establish an approved rent or agency payment.
- Average rent in New JerseyMarket rent versus HUD fair market rent by city and bedroom count.
- How Section 8 rent is calculatedFair market rent, payment standards and rent reasonableness, step by step.
- Section 8 landlord math for 2026What the payment standard changes mean for cash flow this year.
All Section 8 markets in New Jersey
Sorted by active voucher count. Each metro page has HUD Fair Market Rent by bedroom, the housing authorities that administer vouchers there, and waitlist status.
Section 8 by county in New Jersey
County pages show the local voucher count, housing authorities, and metro rollup. Useful when you are looking at a specific address.
- Mercer County25,391 vouchers
- Essex County12,023 vouchers
- Hudson County9,820 vouchers
- Bergen County7,443 vouchers
- Passaic County6,271 vouchers
- Middlesex County5,351 vouchers
- Monmouth County4,818 vouchers
- Union County3,485 vouchers
- Ocean County2,737 vouchers
- Gloucester County2,469 vouchers
- Camden County2,378 vouchers
- Morris County2,354 vouchers
- Atlantic County1,818 vouchers
- Cumberland County1,561 vouchers
- Warren County886 vouchers
- Somerset County534 vouchers
- Hunterdon County494 vouchers
- Salem County71 vouchers
- Burlington County
- Cape May County
- Sussex County
Section 8 in New Jersey: common questions
- Can a landlord refuse Section 8 in New Jersey?
- No. New Jersey law prohibits landlords from refusing a renter because they pay with a Section 8 voucher. That protection applies in New Jersey. If you were turned away for having a voucher, that refusal may be illegal.
- How many Section 8 vouchers are there in New Jersey?
- HUD data shows about 28,770 Housing Choice Vouchers across the 3 New Jersey markets we track, administered by 99 housing authorities statewide.
- How do I apply for Section 8 in New Jersey?
- You apply to a local housing authority, not to the state or to HUD. Each of New Jersey's housing authorities runs its own waitlist and opens it on its own schedule, and applying is always free. Pick your metro or county on this page to see the housing authorities that serve it and their current waitlist status.
Find Section 8 apartments in New Jersey
VoucherMatch connects voucher holders with landlords who accept Section 8, and it is free for renters. The administering housing authority must approve the actual unit, rent and household assistance calculation.