Beachwood vs Ocean Acres

A side-by-side comparison of Beachwood and Ocean Acres: population, income, housing, and more.

Beachwood and Ocean Acres are places in New Jersey. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Ocean Acres has the higher population (18,689 vs 11,002 in Beachwood). Ocean Acres has the higher median household income ($117,739 vs $102,043 in Beachwood). Ocean Acres has the higher median home value ($359,200 vs $307,500 in Beachwood).

Population, income & housing

	Beachwood	Ocean Acres
Population	11,002	18,689
Median age	42.1 yrs	42.7 yrs
Median household income	$102,043	$117,739
Median home value	$307,500	$359,200
Median gross rent	$2,236	$2,240
Housing units	4,180	7,225
Homeownership rate	90.1%	94.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	28.3%	34.4%
Unemployment rate	2.9%	5.7%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Beachwood	Ocean Acres
Population	11,226 → 11,002 (-2.0%)	17,333 → 18,689 (+7.8%)
Median household income	$79,777 → $102,043 (+27.9%)	$88,750 → $117,739 (+32.7%)
Median home value	$231,500 → $307,500 (+32.8%)	$264,600 → $359,200 (+35.8%)
Median gross rent	$1,641 → $2,236 (+36.3%)	$1,853 → $2,240 (+20.9%)

Beachwood

Population

11,22611,002

Median household income

$79,777$102,043

Median home value

$231,500$307,500

Median gross rent

$1,641$2,236

Ocean Acres

Population

17,33318,689

Median household income

$88,750$117,739

Median home value

$264,600$359,200

Median gross rent

$1,853$2,240

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Beachwood	Ocean Acres
Under 5	5.8%	3.8%
5 to 17	14.2%	16.9%
18 to 24	9.5%	8.1%
25 to 34	12.4%	12.8%
35 to 44	10.9%	10.2%
45 to 54	14.2%	16.7%
55 to 64	13.8%	15.0%
65 to 74	12.8%	8.1%
75 and over	6.4%	8.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Beachwood	Ocean Acres
White (non-Hispanic)	78.2%	87.8%
Black or African American	3.7%	1.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	1.1%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.8%
Two or more races	2.7%	1.0%
Hispanic or Latino	14.3%	8.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Beachwood	Ocean Acres
No high school diploma	5.6%	4.7%
High school graduate	32.8%	34.5%
Some college or associate's	33.3%	26.3%
Bachelor's degree	19.8%	21.3%
Graduate or professional degree	8.5%	13.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Beachwood	Ocean Acres
Drove alone	90.7%	80.4%
Carpooled	3.9%	8.3%
Public transit	1.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.4%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	3.9%	9.6%
Other means	0.3%	0.2%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Beachwood	Ocean Acres
1-unit, detached	98.3%	94.0%
1-unit, attached	0.9%	3.8%
2 to 4 units	0.7%	1.5%
5 to 19 units	0.1%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.8%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Beachwood	Ocean Acres
Poverty rate	5.1%	1.8%
Average household size	2.77	2.73
Mean commute (minutes)	33	32
Median year structure built	1976	1993