Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Few places in the country grade higher. Monmouth Beach earns an A+, 34th among New Jersey's 466 graded towns. It is healthier than 97% of U.S. towns, crime is low: it reports less per resident than 96% of U.S. towns, and the median household earns $150K. The exception is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $1.2 million, 11.8 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. Monmouth Beach’s midpoint home value is $1,171,000, above both New Jersey’s towns ($602,000) and U.S. towns ($332,000). Monmouth Beach is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 91% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 21 of New Jersey’s 530 towns do worse.
Where Monmouth Beach beats most towns.
Coastal flooding makes up 27% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Monmouth Beach is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for health (better than 97% of comparable towns) to D for cost of living (better than 8%), so the A+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 485 in 1910, 3,174 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1873 and 3 maps from 1954 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Monmouth Beach. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw31 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw17 mi BeachConey Island
Big draw30 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw33 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw31 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a yearMadison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Central Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Coney Island: OptimumPx, Public domain · 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 Monmouth Beach, 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 Monmouth Beach.
Monmouth Beach reports less crime than Little Silver or any other graded neighbor and has less tooth loss than most of New Jersey, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of New Jersey.
At 11.8 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income, the typical home (about $1.17M) costs more against local pay than in 94% of New Jersey towns; that ratio is one input to that grade.
The median rent for Monmouth Beach comes to $2,257 a month. Home values are up 11% over the year to September 2026. In Monmouth Beach, 84% of households own their home.
| Monmouth Beach | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,257 a month | $1,778 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 84% | 77% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Its A− for schools comes with a D for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $1.17M.
Public schools: the Monmouth Beach School District. Its one school is below. 230 students attend the town’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monmouth Beach Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 230 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with New Jersey is tooth loss: 3.1% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 9.6% statewide.
Among adults in Monmouth Beach, 28% sleep under 7 hours and 12% report frequent mental distress. The town beats the New Jersey average on 18 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. For adults in the town, the share who report frequent physical distress is 10%.
| Monmouth Beach | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 32% | 33% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 36% | 36% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 17% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 23% |
| What stands out | Monmouth Beach | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 3.1% | 9.6% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5.3% | 14.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.8% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
That grade tops all 4 graded towns on its borders; Little Silver (A) comes closest. Violent crime is rare: 0 reported in 2025, 0 per 1,000 residents.
Police in Monmouth Beach reported no violent crime. Monmouth Beach’s property offense rate comes in at 2.8 per 1,000 residents.
| Monmouth Beach | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.8 per 1,000 residents | 7.5 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Jobs based here grew from 357 in 2013 to 692. 27.2% of workers work from home, against 16.8% across New Jersey.
Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Monmouth Beach rose by 335, to 692. In Monmouth Beach, the average commute is 32 minutes. For most workers, Monmouth Beach is a place to come home to: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are New York (9%), Long Branch (5%) and Tinton Falls (3%).
| Monmouth Beach | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $150,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 0.2% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
1,496 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 138 properties have flooded more than once.
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Monmouth Beach after 5 declared disasters, most recently in 2016. Compared with 76% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage here is higher. This New Jersey town has had 1,496 paid flood insurance claims since 1978. Just over a third of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by coastal flooding at 27%.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The range runs from 26° on a January night to 85° on a July afternoon, with about 25 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Among 437 New Jersey towns, just 9 have a lower share of conserved land than Monmouth Beach. The town has one park or preserve, 1 acres in all.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Priscilla Ireland Brower Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
3 within 15 miles of the center of Monmouth Beach
About 5 of every 100 Monmouth Beach residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Where Monmouth Beach’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, US
Monmouth Beach is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, situated on the Jersey Shore in Central Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 3,174, a decrease of 105 (−3.2%) from the 2010 census count of 3,279, which in turn had reflected a decline of 316 (−8.8%) from the 3,595 counted at the 2000 census. The area was first settled in 1668 and grew into a community with the arrival of the Long Branch and Sea Shore Railroad. Many early residents were professional fishermen with Norwegian backgrounds. Monmouth Beach was incorporated from portions of Ocean Township as a borough on March 9, 1906, by an act of the New Jersey Legislature. In 2…
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5 towns share a border with Monmouth Beach.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monmouth Beach | #34 | A+ | D | A+ | A− | A+ |
| Long Branch | #424 | D | D− | C+ | C− | C+ |
| Oceanport | #91 | A | D | A | A− | A+ |
| Sea Bright | — | — | D− | B+ | A− | A+ |
| Little Silver | #20 | A+ | D | A | A | A+ |
| Rumson | #44 | A | D | — | A+ | A+ |
Sea Bright has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Rumson reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Monmouth Beach with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Monmouth Beach grades A+ overall, better than 96% of U.S. towns and #34 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades A+ for health, A+ for safety and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes, by national standards. Monmouth Beach reports less crime per resident than 96% of U.S. towns, an A+ Safety Grade: 0 violent and 9 property crimes in 2025.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
2 notable people were born here, including John Farrell and W. Warren Barbour.
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