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Ocean City
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city in New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Cape May
- Incorporated
- May 3, 1884 (as borough)
- Reincorporated
- March 25, 1897 (as city)
- Type
- Faulkner Act (mayor–council)
- Body
- City Council
- Mayor
- Jay A. Gillian (term ends June 30, 2026)
- Administrator
- George Savastano
- Municipal clerk
- Melissa Rasner
- Total
- 11.56 sq mi (29.93 km )
- Land
- 6.75 sq mi (17.49 km )
- Water
- 4.80 sq mi (12.44 km ) 41.87%
- Rank
- 196th of 565 in state, 5th of 16 in county
- Elevation
- 7 ft (2.1 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 11,242
- Density
- 1,662.8/sq mi (642.0/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Ocean City
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cape May County
- Population
- 11229
- Area
- 27964101
- Elevation
- 1
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Upper Township
- Official website
- www.ocnj.us
- Image
- Ocean City New Jersey Ferris Wheel.JPG
- Households
- 5203
- Dialing code
- 609
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- Commons category
- Ocean City, New Jersey
- P12749
- Alexander Engel
- topic's main category
- Category:Ocean City, New Jersey
- postal code
- 08226
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Ocean City, New Jersey
- water as percent of area
- 41.3459
- per capita income
- 56867
- different from
- Ocean City
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- date of incorporation
- 1884-05-03
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the principal city of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Cape May County, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. It is part of the South Jersey region of the state.
As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 11,229, a decrease of 472 (−4.0%) from the 2010 census count of 11,701, which in turn reflected a decline of 3,677 (−23.9%) from the 15,378 counted in the 2000 census. In summer months, with an influx of tourists and second homeowners, there are estimated to be 115,000 to 130,000 within the city's borders.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ocean City” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.