New Jersey · Census place 3466450

Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Seaside Heights is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey with an estimated 2,522 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 249th largest of 294 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024: 2,522; #249 of 294 in New Jersey
Change since 2020: +3.4%; +84 people
Land area: 0.6 sq mi; + 0.13 sq mi water
Density: 4,068 / sq mi; State median 4,474

Orange pin: Seaside Heights. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Trenton.

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Seaside Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Seaside Heights added 84 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +33.

July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,435. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Seaside Heights covers 0.62 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 4,068 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Seaside Heights is close to the typical town.

What county Seaside Heights is in

All of Seaside Heights's residents live in Ocean County, which had 666,434 residents in 2024. Seaside Heights holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Seaside Heights

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Seaside Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08751. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a borough that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Seaside Heights is

The Census internal point of Seaside Heights is at 39.944900, -74.078300. Trenton, the capital, is 40.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Beachwood, NJ (11,242 people), 6.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New York, NY, 50.1 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal: 39.944900, -74.078300
DMS: 39°56'41.64"N 74°04'41.88"W
UTM: 18N 578739.8E 4422048.3N
Geohash: dr574r9zf
Plus code: 87F7WWVC+XM

Daylight in Seaside Heights

At 39.94° N, Seaside Heights gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Seaside Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Seaside Park, 1.3 miles away, with 2,058 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Seaside Heights, NJ?

2,522 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 84 (3.4%) from 2,438 in July 2020.

What county is Seaside Heights in?

Ocean County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Seaside Heights?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 08751.

How far is Seaside Heights from Trenton?

40.6 miles (65.3 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Seaside Heights.

What is the nearest larger city to Seaside Heights?

Beachwood, NJ, with 11,242 residents, 6.6 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.