State prices
Above normalNew Jersey propane prices
Current residential price: $4.097/gal, wholesale $1.220/gal. EIA weekly survey (October-March).
Data through Oct 26, 2026 · source last checked Oct 31, 2026 · page revised Oct 29, 2026
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- Residential
- Wholesale
About this data
- Source
- EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program survey
- Series
- Residential retail propane price
- Basis
- Residential, retail
- Geography
- New Jersey
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $4.097/gal, 19.3% above the 5-yr median.
New Jersey residential propane reached $4.097/gal through October 26, 19.3% above the 5-year median. Wholesale stands at $1.220/gal. The weekly price survey runs October through March.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $4.097/gal | $4.075/gal | +0.5% |
| Year over year | $4.097/gal | $3.512/gal | +16.7% |
| vs 5-yr median | $4.097/gal | $3.435/gal | +19.3% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Central Atlantic average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $4.026/gal | $3.945/gal (Oct 5) | $4.097/gal (Oct 26) | $1.225/gal | +44.8 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.628/gal | $3.512/gal (Oct 27) | $3.821/gal (Mar 30) | $1.414/gal | +27.4 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.656/gal | $3.295/gal (Oct 7) | $3.968/gal (Feb 17) | $1.257/gal | +31.4 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.292/gal | $3.093/gal (Nov 6) | $3.460/gal (Feb 19) | $0.985/gal | +8.8 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.377/gal | $3.247/gal (Mar 27) | $3.472/gal (Oct 17) | $1.082/gal | +11.5 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.670/gal | $3.524/gal (Oct 4) | $4.002/gal (Mar 14) | 25 of 26 weeks | +34.3 cents |
Each season runs October through March. The average is the simple mean of that season's weekly readings, and the low and high name their survey week. The last column is New Jersey's residential price minus the Central Atlantic residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 84,416 |
| Share of occupied homes | 2.4% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 3,507,701 |
| National rank by propane share | #46 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
New Jersey residential prices hit $4.075/gal as of October 19, up 8.8 cents on the week. Prices sit 17.4% above the 5-year median. Year-over-year they are up 15.9%.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
New Jersey residential propane at $3.988/gal sits 16% above the 5-yr median. Year over year the price is up 13.2%.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Residential propane in New Jersey read $3.821/gal in the Mar 30, 2026 survey, with wholesale at $1.510/gal. Residential rose 1.3 cents on the week and sits 6.5% above the 4-yr median.
About New Jersey propane prices
New Jersey is a natural gas state. Mains reach most of the housing stock, which leaves propane serving the Pinelands, the northwestern hill counties and a scattering of shore communities. Supply is close at hand: terminals along the Delaware River and the New York Harbor complex sit inside or against the state's borders, so freight is a smaller part of the delivered price here than anywhere else in the Northeast.
The price above comes from EIA's State Heating Oil and Propane Program, which surveys a sample of retail dealers in New Jersey once a week and publishes the state average on Wednesday afternoon. It runs October through March only, so nothing new prints between April and September. Two lines run on the chart because EIA surveys New Jersey dealers on both sides of the sale: what they pay at the rack and what they charge a residential customer. The lower line moves first, and the retail line follows it with a lag measured in weeks. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 2.4% of occupied New Jersey homes, 46th of 51 states and the District of Columbia. Most of the state heats with something else.
For context beyond one state, New Jersey sits in the Central Atlantic district: regional prices and Central Atlantic propane stocks. Estimate your fill cost with the propane usage calculator, which works from tank size, gauge reading and what the household burns.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in New Jersey?
New Jersey's residential propane price is $4.097/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.220/gal on Oct 26, 2026. The chart above carries the full history and the table shows the week-over-week move.
When is propane most expensive in New Jersey?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, New Jersey's residential price set its season high in February in two of the last five heating seasons, March in two and October in one. The season low came in October in three of the last five heating seasons, November in one and March in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 41.0 cents a season, and the table above lists each season's high and low week. The regional wrinkle is that the Central Atlantic carries the heaviest East Coast demand, concentrated upstate in New York and across rural Pennsylvania, and draws on Marcellus gas processing as well as Gulf Coast pipeline supply. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.
How does the New Jersey propane price compare with the Central Atlantic average?
New Jersey's residential propane price averaged above the Central Atlantic average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 8.8 cents and 34.3 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey New Jersey was at $4.097/gal against $3.639/gal for the Central Atlantic average. The seasons table above gives the gap season by season, and Central Atlantic propane prices carries the district's own chart.
What is the difference between the residential and wholesale price on this page?
The residential price is what a New Jersey household pays for a delivered gallon: the dealer's own cost plus trucking, tank service and margin. The wholesale price is that dealer cost at the rack, before any of it. The gap between the two is the delivered-service stack, and how propane is priced walks through each layer of it.