Ocean City, New Jersey

Ocean City population, 2020 to 2024

Ocean City lost 7 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by -25. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 176th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Ocean City is 100% of it.

Ocean City covers 6.75 square miles of land and 4.80 of water, for 1,662 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Ocean City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ocean City is in

All of Ocean City's residents live in Cape May County, which had 93,875 residents in 2024. Ocean City holds 12.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ocean City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ocean City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 08226. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ocean City is

The Census internal point of Ocean City is at 39.269500, -74.599800. Trenton, the capital, is 66.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pleasantville, NJ (20,924 people), 9.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 58.5 miles away.

Daylight in Ocean City

At 39.27° N, Ocean City gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ocean City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Somers Point, 3.3 miles away, with 10,611 people.