Old Coast Guard Station Manasquan Inlet · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Point Pleasant Beach have higher incomes than those in 94% of U.S. towns
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 4.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 43.7 in Jersey City. Poverty touches 5.2% of residents; New Jersey has 9.7%. For jobs and income Point Pleasant Beach is better than 81% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is among the most walkable U.S. towns (A+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Point Pleasant Beach, in a few figures
Point Pleasant Beach is the work center of its corner
Every town that borders Point Pleasant Beach (Brielle, Point Pleasant and Manasquan) has fewer jobs than working residents, while Point Pleasant Beach has 1.8 per resident. Next door ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Point Pleasant Beach
65% of Point Pleasant Beach residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 45% of the jobs based in Point Pleasant Beach pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 83% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
35% of the jobs based in Point Pleasant Beach are held by workers 29 or younger, against 24% of Point Pleasant Beach’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Point Pleasant Beach earns its Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Point Pleasant Beach’s grade up ($141,716, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Point Pleasant Beach could be anywhere from B to A+.
The kinds of work in Point Pleasant Beach
3,030 jobs are based in Point Pleasant Beach.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Point Pleasant Beach, 2014 → 2024: 2,938 → 3,030. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Point Pleasant Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Point Pleasant Beach on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,397 residents head out to work, 279 work right here, and 2,751 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,300 people are in Point Pleasant Beach on a workday afternoon, 27% more than live here.
1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where the people who work in Point Pleasant Beach live
Where Point Pleasant Beach clocks in
6% of workers
6% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
How long Point Pleasant Beach spends getting to work: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Point Pleasant Beach workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,288 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across New Jersey: 75% drive alone, 10% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Near or far: the trip to work from Point Pleasant Beach
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Point Pleasant Beach is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Point Pleasant Beach is among the most walkable U.S. towns, #20 of 468 in New Jersey. Both inputs place Point Pleasant Beach near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,672 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 65% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 23% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 80% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.2% of Point Pleasant Beach households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Point Pleasant Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Point Pleasant Beach is 763rd among 3,692 U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| 6 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Hainesport Township NJ | 6,197 | $143K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 761 | Fountainhead-Orchard Hills MD | 6,567 | $103K | 8.8% | 2.1% | 6% | A− |
| 762 | Roeland Park KS | 6,683 | $89K | 9.2% | 3.0% | 2% | A− |
| 763 | Point Pleasant Beach NJ | 4,993 | $142K | 5.2% | 5.6% | 17% | A− |
| 764 | Ovilla TX | 4,808 | $131K | 5.9% | 6.2% | 1% | A− |
| 765 | Slinger WI | 6,495 | $101K | 2.9% | 5.5% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,692 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Point Pleasant Beach, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
Point Pleasant Beach and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Point Pleasant (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Point Pleasant Beach workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point Pleasant Beach | – | A− | A+ | 30 min | $141,716 |
| Brielle | 2% | A | A | 30 min | $172,250 |
| Point Pleasant | 3% | A | A | 30 min | $115,625 |
| Manasquan | under 2% | A+ | A+ | 34 min | $142,944 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Point Pleasant Beach’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Point Pleasant Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Point Pleasant Beach?
$141,716 (±$24,176) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Point Pleasant Beach?
5.2%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Point Pleasant Beach?
30 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Point Pleasant Beach work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brick Township (6%, 4 mi), Wall Township (6%, 6 mi), Toms River Township (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Point Pleasant Beach walkable?
Point Pleasant Beach is among the most walkable U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 15.2 out of 20, and 20% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Point Pleasant Beach without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 23% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Point Pleasant Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Point Pleasant Beach
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.