Best PlacesBeach View, NJ Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Beach View, 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 View ranks 36,950th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on big-city access by a wide margin, and a weak job market ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Beach View
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 View's strengths and weaknesses
Where Beach View ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 97% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 88% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 88% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 82% of towns
Where Beach View ranks low
- Local economyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 1% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 51 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,478 a month, better than only 4% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Beach View
A household needs to earn about $118,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Beach View home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $63,213, 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 View's effective rate of 1.77%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Beach View
Beach View 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 View.
Who works in Beach View, and how
Work in Beach View centers on health care & social and transportation & warehousing. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 90%
- Work from home 6%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Beach View
The coast is about 15 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Beach View, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Beach View, month by month
Beach View sees roughly 51 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 32° | 22° |
| April | 65° | 51° | 39° |
| July | 90° | 77° | 65° |
| October | 71° | 58° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Beach View
The nearest airport, Atlantic City International, is about 25 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Philadelphia International, about 49 miles away.
The best schools in and around Beach View
Schools across Beach View average a C−, better than 26% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Frederic A. Priff Elementary SchoolC− · 26% proficient
Top middle schools
- Russell O. Brackman Middle SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Top high schools
- Barnegat High SchoolC− · 28% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Beach View school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Beach View 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 View against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Beach View
Is Beach View a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Beach View ranks 36,950th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, health care access, and an educated workforce, and lowest on a weak job market and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Beach View expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $397,086. The overall cost of living runs about 8% above the national average. Set against a $63,213 median income, cost of living beats 20% of towns.
Is Beach View safe?
Yes, Beach View is safer than 82% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $140 per resident a year.
Compare Beach View with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Beach View. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Beach View 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 View detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Beach View: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Beach View: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Beach View: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Beach View: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Beach View 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.