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Ocean City, NJ

11,260 Population
6.8 square miles 1,667.4 people per square mile

Census data: ACS 2023 5-year unless noted

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Demographics

57.3 ±2.6 Median age
  • about 1.3 times the figure in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 44.4 ±0.1
  • about 1.4 times the figure in New Jersey: 40.1 ±0.1

Economics

$70,660 ±$5,585 Per capita income
  • about 1.5 times the amount in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: $44,763 ±$872
  • about 1.3 times the amount in New Jersey: $53,118 ±$241
$101,782 ±$11,626 Median household income
  • about 25 percent higher than the amount in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: $80,600 ±$1,803
  • about the same as the amount in New Jersey: $101,050 ±$527

7.9% ±3% (887  ±338) Persons below poverty line
  • about two-thirds of the rate in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 12% 43,416 (±0.7% / ±2,568)
  • about 80 percent of the rate in New Jersey: 9.8% 889,287 (±0.2% / ±14,517)

26.9 minutes ±1.2 (117,990  ±12,184) Mean travel time to work
  • about 10 percent higher than the figure in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 24.7 3,820,375 (±0.5 / ±93,438)
  • about 90 percent of the figure in New Jersey: 30.9 119,274,790 (±0.1 / ±657,334)

Families

5,619 ±310 Number of households
  • the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 153,081 ±1,264
  • New Jersey: 3,478,355 ±4,714
2 ±0.1 (11,166  ±43) Persons per household
  • about 80 percent of the figure in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 2.4 362,244 (±0 / ±218)
  • about three-quarters of the figure in New Jersey: 2.6 9,093,435

1.7% ±1.6% (29  ±27) Women 15-50 who gave birth during past year
  • about one-quarter of the rate in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 5.9% † 4,470 (±1% / ±733)
  • about one-third of the rate in New Jersey: 5.1% 107,472 (±0.1% / ±3,004)

Housing

20,905 ±444 Number of housing units
  • the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 231,727 ±181
  • New Jersey: 3,775,842 ±525

$719,100 ±$41,273 Median value of owner-occupied housing units
  • more than double the amount in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: $302,600 ±$5,290
  • more than 1.5 times the amount in New Jersey: $427,600 ±$1,335

14.5% ±3.7% (1,627  ±415.8) Moved since previous year
  • about 1.4 times the rate in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 10.7% 39,274 (±0.7% / ±2,514.8)
  • about 1.5 times the rate in New Jersey: 9.9% 911,070 (±0.1% / ±12,354.8)

Social

96.6% ±5% (8,616  ±532.8) High school grad or higher
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 90.4% 240,036 (±1.3% / ±3,550.7)
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in New Jersey: 90.7% 5,858,484 (±0.3% / ±19,546.8)
54.7% ±3.7% (4,879  ±372.2) Bachelor's degree or higher
  • more than 1.5 times the rate in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 32.9% 87,271 (±0.8% / ±2,053.4)
  • about 25 percent higher than the rate in New Jersey: 42.9% 2,771,686 (±0.2% / ±13,002.8)

N/A Persons with language other than English spoken at home

6.6% ±3% (747  ±334) Foreign-born population
  • about half the rate in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 13.2% 48,889
  • about one-quarter of the rate in New Jersey: 23.5% 2,181,755

8.2% ±1.8% (788  ±174) Population with veteran status
  • about 1.4 times the rate in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area: 6% 17,753 (±0.3% / ±973)
  • more than double the rate in New Jersey: 4% 285,835 (±0.1% / ±4,508)
788 Total veterans ±174 730 Male ±176 58 Female ±62

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