Long Meadow

Long Meadow is one of West Windsor Township's earlier detached-home developments, built mostly in 1971 and 1972 along Fieldston Road, Wilder Avenue, Wallingford Drive, and Coventry Circle. Everything here is detached single-family housing, there is no HOA, and the neighborhood is not age-restricted. Every home is served by the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, the district listing agents name explicitly when they market a house here. Recent closings have ranged from $900,000 to $1,100,000, a spread that in a neighborhood of similar-vintage houses comes down mostly to size and condition.

The homes

Long Meadow is entirely detached single-family. Above-grade floor area recorded on recent sales runs from 1,604 to 2,898 square feet, with a median of 2,376, and bedroom counts are mostly three or four, with several five and six bedroom houses at the larger end. Build years cluster in 1971 and 1972, so the stock reflects the two-story plans of the early 1970s, and hardwood floors turn up regularly in listing remarks. An older house on Wilder Avenue dates to 1949 and predates the main development. At roughly fifty years old, the renovation question is what drives value: a home with original kitchens, baths, and mechanicals prices differently from one where that work is already done, and that difference accounts for much of the distance between the bottom and the top of the recent range.

Setting

Long Meadow sits within West Windsor Township in Mercer County. Its streets, Fieldston Road, Wilder Avenue, Wallingford Drive, and Coventry Circle, are residential and carry little through traffic, and listing remarks for homes here describe quiet streets and mature trees. The landscaping has had roughly five decades to fill in. Because the houses went up over a short span in the early 1970s, the streetscape stays consistent from one block to the next rather than mixing eras. One quirk is worth knowing before you search: mail to Long Meadow is addressed Princeton 08540. That is a postal designation only. The neighborhood is entirely within West Windsor Township, and the tax bill and school assignment follow the township, not the mailing label.

Schools

Every home in Long Meadow is served by the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, one of the top-ranked public districts in New Jersey and the reason many relocating families concentrate their search in this township. Listing remarks for homes here name the district explicitly, which is a fair signal of what sellers believe buyers are shopping for. The specific elementary assignment depends on street address and should be confirmed with the district for any particular home before you write an offer. For commuters, Princeton Junction station, in West Windsor, is on the Northeast Corridor line, roughly 50 minutes to Midtown Manhattan, with service toward Trenton and Philadelphia as well.

Market position

Recent closings in Long Meadow have ranged from $900,000 to $1,100,000, which places it inside the West Windsor-Plainsboro detached-home market rather than above or below it. What a buyer gets at that level is an early-1970s house on an established street, with the district's schools and no HOA fee, instead of the newer construction or attached housing that competes at similar prices elsewhere in the township. Turnover is light, with sales arriving a few at a time rather than continuously, so the pool of true comparables is small and pricing depends on reading the few recent sales carefully rather than leaning on a broad average. The figures on this page update daily from BrightMLS and are the most current read available on where the neighborhood stands.