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Place dossier plate
SheetNJ-SEA-ISLE-CITY-NJ · Sea Isle City, NJ 2,079 pop · income 77th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Sea Isle City
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sea Isle City on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Yeguada comun… · lowest
22,019
Yeguada comun… · lowest
22,019 median HH income
8.8% of the leader · rank #1
Lemont · near
98,847
Lemont · near
98,847 median HH income
39.5% of the leader · rank #2
Sea Isle City · this city
98,860
Sea Isle City · this city
98,860 median HH income
39.5% of the leader · rank #3
Sudden Valley · near
98,865
Sudden Valley · near
98,865 median HH income
39.5% of the leader · rank #4
Lake Orion · near
98,871
Lake Orion · near
98,871 median HH income
39.5% of the leader · rank #5
Shanor-Northv… · near
98,878
Shanor-Northv… · near
98,878 median HH income
39.6% of the leader · rank #6
Hidden Hills · highest
250,001
Hidden Hills · highest
250,001 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Sea Isle City on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 2,079.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Sea Isle City - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Sea Isle City places in the 77th percentile for household income and the 10th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
77th
percentile, household income
97th
percentile, home value
94th
percentile, median rent
10th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Sea Isle City, NJ
2,079 people live in Sea Isle City, New Jersey - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Sea Isle City households earn a median of $98,860 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.1%. Typical homes in Sea Isle City are valued around $1,019,500, and the median resident age is 65.2 years. About 47.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 37.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 54 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 50% from five years earlier. Sea Isle City's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 3524.4 crimes per 100,000 residents, above the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
New Jersey carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, New Jersey scores 108.8 (Well Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,132 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across New Jersey, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 90.8 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Sea Isle City's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sea Isle City, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Population change
Is Sea Isle City growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +13 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 54 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Sea Isle City?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3524.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 55% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Sea Isle City?
Within New Jersey, the closest population matches are Englishtown (2,075 residents, $101,736 income); Woodbine (2,083 residents, $45,179 income); Forsgate (2,094 residents, $235,357 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hidden Hills, CA (2,079 residents); Toledo, IA (2,079 residents); Hemby Bridge, NC (2,079 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
How far does income reach against housing in Sea Isle City?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 10.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Sea Isle City?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
1.3%
Work from home
17.7%
Drive alone
74.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 746 workers age 16+.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A-
47.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$98,860
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C+
141 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living F
108.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Sea Isle City profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 82/100 (A-) · 47.5%
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $98,860
Poverty rate: 71/100 (B) · 4.1%
Violent crime: 61/100 (C+) · 141 /100k
Cost of living: 10/100 (F) · 108.8 index
Where Sea Isle City sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Sea Isle City's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Sea Isle City highlighted among 24 peers.Read the chart values
Sea Isle City, NJ (this city): home $1,019,500, crime 3,524/100k
Hidden Hills, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 660/100k
Caryville, TN : home $193,300, crime 1,096/100k
Englishtown, NJ : home $479,000, crime 812/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Sea Isle City compare to other US cities?
Sea Isle City measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income77% higher than other cities
Home value97% pricier than other cities
Median rent94% pricier than other cities
Safety10% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just New Jersey and the picture shifts: Sea Isle City ranks #222 of 238 New Jersey cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Sea Isle City against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New Jersey only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New Jersey-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Sea Isle City near the bottom of New Jersey's cities
Among the 686 New Jersey cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sea Isle City ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sea Isle City only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#391 of 659
41st percentile in New Jersey
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 686
0th percentile in New Jersey
Median Home Value
#29 of 672
96th percentile in New Jersey
Poverty Rate
#280 of 680
58th percentile in New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#287 of 686
58th percentile in New Jersey
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within New Jersey only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
77th percentile nationally for median household income · 10th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Sea Isle City's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Sea Isle City's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Sea Isle City's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,019,5003rd percentilemore affordable than 3% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Sea Isle City's home-value-to-income ratio: 10.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,378 of 15,516
More affordable than 1% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#11,229 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 10.3×, Sea Isle City sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,378 of 15,516 and #11,229 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$98,860Sea Isle City, NJ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sea Isle City, NJ median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Sea Isle City, NJ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)47.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)37.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,079
Median Income
$98,860
Median Home Value
$1,019,500
Median Age
65.2
Poverty Rate
4.1%
Labor force participation
37.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
47.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3524.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
141.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3383.5
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Sea Isle City's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,101 residents
2021
2,131 residents
2022
2,134 residents
2023
2,123 residents
2024
2,124 residents
2025
2,114 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
54
housing units authorized
Single-Family
54
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
26
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
109
103
6
$35.1M
2020
46
40
6
$20.6M
2021
65
65
0
$28.8M
2022
32
32
0
$13.3M
2023
55
55
0
$24.3M
2024
54
54
0
$23.9M
Permit volume decreased 50% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.0%
Carpool
2.9%
Public Transit
1.3%
Walk
3.4%
Work from Home
17.7%
Other
0.7%
Based on 746 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New Jersey statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $275
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New Jersey at $275 (electricity about $120 , water and sewer about $60 ).
These are New Jersey statewide averages, not a meter reading for Sea Isle City. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New Jersey's BEA cost-of-living index is 108.8 (Well Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Sea Isle City is $2,132/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New Jersey statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 90.8 / 100 (Very High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New Jersey statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Sea Isle City sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sea Isle City compares to similar-size New Jersey cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.