Photo: SurFeRGiRL30 · CC BY 2.0Household incomes in Seaside Heights trail those of 90% of U.S. towns
Seaside Heights grades D for jobs and income and A for walkability. Below the poverty line: 34.1% of residents, next to 9.7% across New Jersey. Only 8% work in Seaside Heights itself; outside it, Toms River Township draws the most (16%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Seaside Heights: the figures worth knowing
Seaside Heights and Toms River Township trade workers both ways
Toms River Township is the top workplace for Seaside Heights residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Seaside Heights come from (33% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
32% of the jobs based in Seaside Heights are held by workers 29 or younger, against 20% of Seaside Heights’ own working residents. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 903 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Seaside Heights
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Seaside Heights is better than 13% of U.S. towns, #467 of 468 in New Jersey. Job access by car holds Seaside Heights’ grade up (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Seaside Heights could be anywhere from D to B−.
The towns that employ Seaside Heights’ residents
Where Seaside Heights clocks in
16% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Seaside Heights
578 jobs are based in Seaside Heights.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seaside Heights, 2013 → 2023: 476 → 578. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Seaside Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Seaside Heights by day
On a workday 832 residents head out to work, 71 work right here, and 507 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Seaside Heights on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.64 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Seaside Heights’ commute takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seaside Heights workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 886 commuters (the 10% 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.
Where in the region Seaside Heights works
About 20% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Seaside Heights is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Seaside Heights is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns, #213 of 468 in New Jersey. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 13.2% across New Jersey, on an EPA index of 8.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 987 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 24.1% of Seaside Heights households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Seaside Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Seaside Heights is 4,098th among 4,868 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Sea Girt NJ | 1,874 | $214K | 3.3% | 4.5% | 4% | A+ |
| 54 | Spring Lake NJ | 2,769 | $216K | 1.0% | 2.4% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Woodbury Heights NJ | 3,162 | $123K | 4.1% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,096 | Paris AR | 3,357 | $51K | 18.9% | 5.0% | 25% | D |
| 4,097 | Potosi MO | 2,568 | $40K | 25.0% | 3.7% | 22% | D |
| 4,098 | Seaside Heights NJ | 2,549 | $48K | 34.1% | 8.0% | 8% | D |
| 4,099 | Billings Township MI | 2,377 | $54K | 10.0% | 7.1% | 2% | D |
| 4,100 | Rushville IL | 2,857 | $58K | 12.6% | 7.1% | 23% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Seaside Heights, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
Bordering towns draw 20% of Seaside Heights’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Seaside Heights workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seaside Heights | – | D | A | 31 min | $47,589 |
| Dover Beaches South | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Toms River Township | 16% | A− | B | 30 min | $99,547 |
| Berkeley Township | 4% | C+ | B | 34 min | $66,008 |
Same-state neighbors only. Dover Beaches South: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Toms River Township. Darker towns draw more of Seaside Heights’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 2023, 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 Seaside Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Seaside Heights?
$47,589 (±$25,253) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seaside Heights?
34.1%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seaside Heights?
31 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seaside Heights work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toms River Township (16%, 6 mi), Lakewood Township (6%, 11 mi), Brick Township (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Seaside Heights walkable?
Seaside Heights is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Seaside Heights without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 24% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seaside Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seaside Heights
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.