Best PlacesSeaside Park, NJ Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Seaside Park, 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.
Seaside Park ranks 36,045th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Seaside Park
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.
Seaside Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Seaside Park ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 98% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 98% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 96% of towns
Where Seaside Park ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter 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 Seaside Park
A household needs to earn about $227,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Seaside Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $87,813, 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 Seaside Park's effective rate of 1.24%, 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 Seaside Park
Seaside Park 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 Seaside Park.
Who works in Seaside Park, and how
Work in Seaside Park centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 19%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Seaside Park
Seaside Park has more restaurants and bars per resident than 96% of towns. The coast is about 0 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Seaside Park and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Seaside Park, month by month
Seaside Park 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 Seaside Park
The nearest airport, Atlantic City International, is about 42 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is John F Kennedy International, about 52 miles away.
The best schools in and around Seaside Park
Schools across Seaside Park average a D, better than 9% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Lavallette Elementary SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- H & M Potter SchoolC− · 26% proficient
- Hugh J. Boyd Jr. Elementary SchoolD− · 12% proficient
Top middle schools
- Central Regional Middle SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Toms River High School EastC · 31% proficient
- Central Regional High SchoolD · 23% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Seaside Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Seaside Park 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 Seaside Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Seaside Park
Is Seaside Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Seaside Park ranks 36,045th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, fast internet, and biking, and lowest on an overheated housing market and state finances. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Seaside Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $818,846. The overall cost of living runs about 51% above the national average. Set against a $87,813 median income, cost of living beats 19% of towns.
Is Seaside Park safe?
Yes, Seaside Park is safer than 71% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $162 per resident a year.
Compare Seaside Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Seaside Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Seaside Park 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.
Seaside Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Seaside Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Seaside Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Seaside Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Seaside Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Seaside Park 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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