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Ocean City, NJ

11,211 Population
6.8 square miles 1,660.2 people per square mile

Census data: ACS 2021 5-year unless noted

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Demographics

56.3 ±2.7 Median age
  • about 10 percent higher than the figure in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 50.4 ±0.2
  • about 1.4 times the figure in New Jersey: 40 ±0.1

Economics

$62,530 ±$5,038 Per capita income
  • about 1.4 times the amount in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: $45,689 ±$1,669
  • about 1.3 times the amount in New Jersey: $46,691 ±$213
$88,414 ±$8,200 Median household income
  • about 20 percent higher than the amount in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: $76,237 ±$2,787
  • about the same as the amount in New Jersey: $89,703 ±$507

8.8% ±3.5% (968  ±386) Persons below poverty line
  • a little less than the rate in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 9.3% † 8,730 (±1.2% / ±1,126)
  • about 90 percent of the rate in New Jersey: 9.8% 883,896 (±0.1% / ±12,412)

30.1 minutes ±2.1 (135,740  ±13,486) Mean travel time to work
  • about 1.4 times the figure in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 22.3 879,505 (±0.9 / ±43,568)
  • a little less than the figure in New Jersey: 31.5 126,284,970 (±0.1 / ±619,819)

Families

5,353 ±261 Number of households
  • the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 41,971 ±768
  • New Jersey: 3,397,156 ±5,756
2.1 ±0.1 (11,042  ±83) Persons per household
  • about 90 percent of the figure in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 2.2 93,316 (±0 / ±360)
  • about three-quarters of the figure in New Jersey: 2.7 9,050,134

0.2% ±0.4% (4  ±8) Women 15-50 who gave birth during past year
  • less than 10 percent of the rate in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 5.1% † 857 (±1.6% / ±266)
  • less than 10 percent of the rate in New Jersey: 5% 106,279 (±0.1% / ±2,560)

Housing

20,835 ±368 Number of housing units
  • the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 99,567 ±171
  • New Jersey: 3,738,342 ±433

$594,700 ±$27,967 Median value of owner-occupied housing units
  • nearly double the amount in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: $318,600 ±$8,412
  • more than 1.5 times the amount in New Jersey: $355,700 ±$986

16.6% ±3.6% (1,857  ±400.2) Moved since previous year
  • about 1.3 times the rate in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 12.4% 11,785 (±1.2% / ±1,135.2)
  • about 1.5 times the rate in New Jersey: 10.3% 944,204 (±0.1% / ±13,068.6)

Social

96.8% ±5.1% (8,604  ±515.2) High school grad or higher
  • a little higher than the rate in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 94.1% 67,643 (±2.3% / ±1,698)
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in New Jersey: 90.5% 5,802,729 (±0.3% / ±19,579.2)
54% ±3.8% (4,798  ±360.7) Bachelor's degree or higher
  • about 1.5 times the rate in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 35% 25,157 (±1.4% / ±1,040.5)
  • about 1.3 times the rate in New Jersey: 41.5% 2,660,853 (±0.2% / ±12,771.8)

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

6.2% ±2.5% (692  ±278) Foreign-born population
  • about 25 percent higher than the rate in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 4.9% † 4,628 (±0.6% / ±609)
  • about one-quarter of the rate in New Jersey: 22.9% 2,115,061 (±0.2% / ±13,418)

8.9% ±1.9% (840  ±179) Population with veteran status
  • a little higher than the rate in the Ocean City, NJ Metro Area: 8.5% 6,582 (±0.6% / ±487)
  • more than double the rate in New Jersey: 4.3% 309,642 (±0.1% / ±4,437)
840 Total veterans ±179 768 Male ±170 72 Female ±62

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