Heating Oil in Mercer County, NJ
Mercer County is the first New Jersey county this service reaches, straight across the Delaware from Lower Bucks. It runs from Trenton and the dense Hamilton townships out to Hopewell, Pennington and the horse-country edges where oil heat is still ordinary rather than unusual.
- Towns covered
- 12
- ZIP codes
- 17
- Homes on oil
- 8,255
Getting oil delivered in Mercer County
Crossing the river is the whole reason Mercer prices differently. A truck loading in Bucks pays a bridge and a longer run before it makes its first stop, and that is a real cost that belongs in the price rather than hidden in it — so New Jersey carries its own zone offset, shown before you order. Once across, the county divides much the way Bucks does: Trenton, Hamilton and Ewing are close-packed rowhouse and post-war streets where a driver can work a great many stops in a morning, while Hopewell and Pennington are long drives, older houses and buried tanks.
How Mercer County heats
- Occupied homes
- 128,586
- Heating with oil
- 8,255
- Share on oil
- 6.4%
2019–2023 American Community Survey 5-year estimates, summed across the 17 ZIP codes we cover here. Percentages are recomputed from the counts rather than averaged.
Most oil-heated homes: 08534 (1,010) · 08638 (938) · 08540 (828)
Towns we deliver to in Mercer County
Heating oil in Mercer County — common questions
Do you deliver heating oil in Mercer County, New Jersey?+
Yes, across seventeen ZIP codes — Trenton, Hamilton, Hamilton Square, Ewing, Mercerville, Yardville, Lawrenceville, Princeton, Princeton Junction, Robbinsville, Pennington and Hopewell. It is a real footprint rather than the whole county: Princeton University’s own ZIP and several outlying ones are not covered, and we say so rather than take an order we cannot fill.
Where is oil heat most common in Mercer County?+
Pennington and Ewing hold the most oil-heated homes of the ZIPs we cover, followed by Princeton and the Trenton and Hamilton ZIPs. The pattern is the usual one — the further from a gas main and the older the housing stock, the more oil remains.
Why does New Jersey cost slightly more than Pennsylvania?+
The bridge and the drive. Every New Jersey delivery starts with a river crossing and a longer run to the first stop, and that carries a zone offset of about ten cents a gallon. It is applied to the ladder you can see, not added at the door.
Do I still get today’s real price in New Jersey?+
Yes. Prices in every covered New Jersey ZIP are set the same way as in Pennsylvania — compared against the local market and updated through the day, with the price you are shown being the price you are charged.
Also in New Jersey: Bucks County · Montgomery County · Philadelphia County · Burlington County