Jersey City air ducts cleaned with HEPA equipment and NADCA methods.
Jersey City apartments and their ducts
About 54% of Jersey City's homes are in buildings of five or more units, and about 30% were built since 2000. Since 1988, state law has required developers along the Hudson County waterfront to provide public access.
Know your Jersey City home
Jersey City's population was 292,449 in the 2020 Census.
Roughly 56 in 100 Jersey City homes were built before 1980 (median year 1971, per the Census). Many ducts here are 45 years old or more, older than the equipment connected to them.
Since 1988, state law has required developers building along the Hudson County waterfront to provide public access, and much of Jersey City's newer high-rise housing is on that waterfront. City Reservoir No. 1 was built between 1851 and 1854.
Around 92% of Jersey City's homes are townhouses or in multi-unit buildings, and the rest are mostly detached houses.
About 28% of Jersey City homes are owner-occupied.
Heating fuel varies: utility gas heats about 61% of occupied homes and electricity about 32%. A gas furnace feeding forced-air ducts is the typical setup in town.