Best PlacesBeach Haven Heights, NJ Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Beach Haven Heights, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Beach Haven Heights ranks 33,690th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and disaster risk is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Beach Haven Heights
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Beach Haven Heights' strengths and weaknesses
Where Beach Haven Heights ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 98% of towns
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 95% of towns
Where Beach Haven Heights ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Short commute52.2 minutes each way, better than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 1% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 2% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Beach Haven Heights
A household needs to earn about $290,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Beach Haven Heights home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $122,250, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Beach Haven Heights' effective rate of 0.70%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Beach Haven Heights
Beach Haven Heights runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Beach Haven Heights.
Who works in Beach Haven Heights, and how
Work in Beach Haven Heights centers on manufacturing and admin & support services. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 58%
- Work from home 18%
- Transit, walk, or bike 24%
Life in Beach Haven Heights
The coast is about 3 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Beach Haven Heights, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Beach Haven Heights, month by month
Beach Haven Heights sees roughly 58 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 26. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47° | 36° | 26° |
| April | 67° | 54° | 42° |
| July | 89° | 78° | 68° |
| October | 72° | 60° | 49° |
Flying in and out of Beach Haven Heights
The nearest airport, Atlantic City International, is about 17 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Philadelphia International, about 57 miles away.
The best schools in and around Beach Haven Heights
Schools across Beach Haven Heights average a C, better than 36% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Beach Haven SchoolB+ · 55% proficient
- Long Beach Island Grade SchoolC · 35% proficient
- Brigantine Community SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Top middle schools
- Southern Regional Middle SchoolC− · 28% proficient
- Galloway Township Middle SchoolC− · 28% proficient
- Pinelands Regional Jr. High SchoolD · 22% proficient
Top high schools
- Southern Regional High SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
- Absegami High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- Pinelands Regional High SchoolC− · 27% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Beach Haven Heights school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Beach Haven Heights measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Beach Haven Heights against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Beach Haven Heights
Is Beach Haven Heights a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Beach Haven Heights ranks 33,690th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, health care access, and civic engagement, and lowest on disaster risk and long commutes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Beach Haven Heights expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,125,000. The overall cost of living runs about 89% above the national average. Set against a $122,250 median income, cost of living beats 28% of towns.
Is Beach Haven Heights safe?
Beach Haven Heights is safer than 54% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $192 per resident a year.
Compare Beach Haven Heights with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Beach Haven Heights. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Beach Haven Heights represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Beach Haven Heights detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Beach Haven Heights: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Beach Haven Heights: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Beach Haven Heights: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Beach Haven Heights: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Beach Haven Heights detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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