Photo: Dough4872 · Public domainWith 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Seaside Park works elsewhere
Only 1% stay in Seaside Park for work; outside it, Toms River Township is the main destination (15%, 7 miles). Employers in Seaside Park report 215 jobs; 591 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Seaside Park are B for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Seaside Park: the figures worth knowing
Why Seaside Park gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Seaside Park is better than 63% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Seaside Park’s grade up (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.3%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Seaside Park’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Seaside Park could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Commuting out of Seaside Park: the destinations
Where Seaside Park clocks in
15% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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.
A workday in Seaside Park: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 584 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 208 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Seaside Park on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Seaside Park
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seaside Park, 2013 → 2023: 143 → 215. 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 Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Seaside Park: about 31 minutes a trip
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 Park workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 640 commuters (the 15% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Seaside Park
About 25% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Seaside Park
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Seaside Park is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Seaside Park 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 750 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). 1.9% of Seaside Park households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Seaside Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900, Seaside Park ranks 1,547th of 5,404 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Alpine NJ | 1,759 | $247K | 6.2% | 6.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Sea Girt NJ | 1,874 | $214K | 3.3% | 4.5% | 4% | A+ |
| 62 | Spring Lake NJ | 2,769 | $216K | 1.0% | 2.4% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,545 | West Buffalo Township PA | 2,852 | $79K | 6.7% | 2.4% | 3% | B |
| 1,546 | Walkerton IN | 2,074 | $65K | 6.4% | 2.5% | 22% | B |
| 1,547 | Seaside Park NJ | 2,135 | $84K | 10.3% | 5.2% | 1% | B |
| 1,548 | Folsom NJ | 1,834 | $110K | 7.3% | 8.3% | 6% | B |
| 1,549 | Pickford Township MI | 1,541 | $100K | 1.7% | 4.6% | 6% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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 Park, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
The towns around Seaside Park
The biggest share goes to Berkeley Township (7%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Seaside Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seaside Park | – | B | A | 31 min | $84,375 |
| Berkeley Township | 7% | C+ | B | 34 min | $66,008 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Seaside Park’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 Park: questions
What is the median household income in Seaside Park?
$84,375 (±$15,346) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seaside Park?
10.3%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seaside Park?
31 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seaside Park work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toms River Township (15%, 7 mi), Berkeley Township (7%, 6 mi), Brick Township (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Seaside Park walkable?
Seaside Park is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Seaside Park without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seaside Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seaside Park
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.