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A town of 4,417, settled in 1882.
Atlantic Highlands’ best subject grades are an A+ for walkability and an A for health and incomes; its weakest is a C− for cost of living. Atlantic Highlands’ average commute is 41 minutes, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 30 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. On walkability, just 8 of New Jersey’s 530 towns do better. On civic life, just 8 of New Jersey’s 527 towns do better. Atlantic Highlands has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them ALEXANDER HAMILTON (steamship) and Romer Shoal Light Station. Atlantic Highlands has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and schools, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
Where Atlantic Highlands beats most towns.
Where Atlantic Highlands’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Atlantic Highlands is from typical.
Atlantic Highlands has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and schools, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
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Census counts: 945 in 1890, 4,414 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1882 and 8 maps from 1888 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Atlantic Highlands. Close and well known come first.
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw11 mi BeachConey Island
Big draw26 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw24 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw28 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw26 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a yearMadison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Coney Island: OptimumPx, Public domain · Central Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Atlantic Highlands, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Atlantic Highlands.
Among adults in Atlantic Highlands, 18% get no exercise outside work. CDC measures, 32 in all: Atlantic Highlands beats New Jersey on 15 and trails on 2. Also worth knowing: in Atlantic Highlands, 26% of adults feel lonely, below both New Jersey’s towns (32%) and U.S. towns (33%). Two figures for adults in the town: 15% have been diagnosed with depression, 13% report frequent mental distress.
| Atlantic Highlands | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 32% | 33% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 36% | 36% |
| What stands out | Atlantic Highlands | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7% | 14.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6% | 11.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The public schools here belong to the Henry Hudson Regional School District. Its one school is below. Atlantic Highlands’ only public school teaches 282 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Highlands Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 282 | – |
NCES · EDFacts
In the year to September 2026, typical home values climbed 9.4%. The typical rent in Atlantic Highlands is $1,979 a month. For households here, the share who live in a home they own is 71%.
| Atlantic Highlands | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,979 a month | $1,778 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 71% | 77% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The top destinations are New York (14%), Middletown Township (8%) and Red Bank (4%). For most workers, Atlantic Highlands is a place to come home to: only 6% work in town. Employers in Atlantic Highlands added 419 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,349. The income of the median household for Atlantic Highlands comes to $126,000.
| Atlantic Highlands | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $126,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 4.6% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The seasons in Atlantic Highlands: chilly winters, warm summers. Summer afternoons peak near 85° in July, and January nights bottom out around 26°; snowfall runs to about 25 inches a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts. Atlantic Highlands's reported crime rate is well below New Jersey's. For Atlantic Highlands, the level of property crime is 4.6 per 1,000 residents. 6 violent crimes were reported in 2024.
| Atlantic Highlands | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2024) | 4.6 per 1,000 residents | 8.9 | 11.5 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2024) | 1.4 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.7 |
FBI crime data, 2024 · crimes reported to police
Atlantic Highlands’ concentration of trails is 0.1 miles per square mile. Across 1 park or preserve: 0.5 miles of trail. Parks and preserves here: one, of 7 acres.
| Atlantic Highlands | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 2% | 11% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Mount Mitchell Scenic Overlook County Park | 0.2 mi | 7 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Paid flood insurance claims in Atlantic Highlands since 1984: 69. Storm and flood damage is expected to run higher than in 52% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 35% come from inland flooding and 33% from strong winds. Households in the town have drawn federal disaster aid in 6 declared disasters, most recently in 2020.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
20 within 15 miles of the center of Atlantic Highlands
About 4 of every 100 Atlantic Highlands residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Jersey.
2 places in Atlantic Highlands on the National Register of Historic Places.
4 notable people were born in Atlantic Highlands.
Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, US
Atlantic Highlands is a borough in Monmouth County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, in the Bayshore Region. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 4,414, an increase of 29 (+0.7%) from the 2010 census count of 4,385, which in turn reflected a decline of 320 (−6.8%) from the 4,705 in the 2000 census. Atlantic Highlands contains Mount Mitchill, the highest point on the eastern seaboard south of Maine, rising 266 feet (81 m) above sea level. The borough's name comes from its location overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic Highlands was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 28, 1887, from portions of Middletown Township, based…
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4 towns share a border with Atlantic Highlands.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Highlands | — | — | C− | — | — | A |
| Middletown Township | #93 | A | C− | A− | B+ | A |
| Navesink | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Highlands | #242 | B | D | B+ | — | A |
| Leonardo | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Atlantic Highlands reports no FBI crime data of its own. Atlantic Highlands, Navesink and Leonardo aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Atlantic Highlands with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Atlantic Highlands has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and schools, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
Yes. That is 8.8 years of the area's median household income ($99,155 across the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
4 notable people were born here, including Donald Brown and Peter E. Fleming Jr..
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