Crestwood Village vs Ocean Acres

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

Crestwood Village 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 7,951 in Crestwood Village). Ocean Acres has the higher median household income ($117,739 vs $38,396 in Crestwood Village). Ocean Acres has the higher median home value ($359,200 vs $95,700 in Crestwood Village).

Population, income & housing

	Crestwood Village	Ocean Acres
Population	7,951	18,689
Median age	71.5 yrs	42.7 yrs
Median household income	$38,396	$117,739
Median home value	$95,700	$359,200
Median gross rent	$1,236	$2,240
Housing units	6,712	7,225
Homeownership rate	89.8%	94.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.5%	34.4%
Unemployment rate	11.2%	5.7%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Crestwood Village	Ocean Acres
Population	8,155 → 7,951 (-2.5%)	17,333 → 18,689 (+7.8%)
Median household income	$29,671 → $38,396 (+29.4%)	$88,750 → $117,739 (+32.7%)
Median home value	$73,300 → $95,700 (+30.6%)	$264,600 → $359,200 (+35.8%)
Median gross rent	$1,023 → $1,236 (+20.8%)	$1,853 → $2,240 (+20.9%)

Crestwood Village

Population

8,1557,951

Median household income

$29,671$38,396

Median home value

$73,300$95,700

Median gross rent

$1,023$1,236

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)

	Crestwood Village	Ocean Acres
Under 5	0.0%	3.8%
5 to 17	0.0%	16.9%
18 to 24	0.3%	8.1%
25 to 34	1.9%	12.8%
35 to 44	2.4%	10.2%
45 to 54	1.5%	16.7%
55 to 64	20.2%	15.0%
65 to 74	34.9%	8.1%
75 and over	38.9%	8.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Crestwood Village	Ocean Acres
White (non-Hispanic)	92.1%	87.8%
Black or African American	1.7%	1.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	1.3%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.2%	0.8%
Two or more races	0.5%	1.0%
Hispanic or Latino	4.2%	8.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Crestwood Village	Ocean Acres
No high school diploma	9.0%	4.7%
High school graduate	45.6%	34.5%
Some college or associate's	26.9%	26.3%
Bachelor's degree	12.4%	21.3%
Graduate or professional degree	6.1%	13.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Crestwood Village	Ocean Acres
Drove alone	85.8%	80.4%
Carpooled	2.5%	8.3%
Public transit	0.1%	0.0%
Walked	2.0%	1.4%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	9.6%	9.6%
Other means	0.0%	0.2%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Crestwood Village	Ocean Acres
1-unit, detached	23.8%	94.0%
1-unit, attached	37.2%	3.8%
2 to 4 units	35.3%	1.5%
5 to 19 units	1.3%	0.0%
20 or more units	2.4%	0.8%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Crestwood Village	Ocean Acres
Poverty rate	11.9%	1.8%
Average household size	1.38	2.73
Mean commute (minutes)	32	32
Median year structure built	1976	1993