Leisure Village vs Point Pleasant Beach

A side-by-side comparison of Leisure Village and Point Pleasant Beach: population, income, housing, and more.

Leisure Village and Point Pleasant Beach are places in New Jersey. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Leisure Village has the higher population (6,307 vs 4,826 in Point Pleasant Beach). Point Pleasant Beach has the higher median household income ($131,641 vs $42,705 in Leisure Village). Point Pleasant Beach has the higher median home value ($813,500 vs $127,000 in Leisure Village).

Population, income & housing

	Leisure Village	Point Pleasant Beach
Population	6,307	4,826
Median age	54.9 yrs	47.2 yrs
Median household income	$42,705	$131,641
Median home value	$127,000	$813,500
Median gross rent	$1,725	$1,717
Housing units	3,265	2,856
Homeownership rate	61.3%	70.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.1%	59.1%
Unemployment rate	5.0%	6.9%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Leisure Village	Point Pleasant Beach
Population	4,547 → 6,307 (+38.7%)	4,537 → 4,826 (+6.4%)
Median household income	$42,772 → $42,705 (-0.2%)	$103,940 → $131,641 (+26.7%)
Median home value	$104,500 → $127,000 (+21.5%)	$608,000 → $813,500 (+33.8%)
Median gross rent	$1,241 → $1,725 (+39.0%)	$1,417 → $1,717 (+21.2%)

Leisure Village

Population

4,5476,307

Median household income

$42,772$42,705

Median home value

$104,500$127,000

Median gross rent

$1,241$1,725

Point Pleasant Beach

Population

4,5374,826

Median household income

$103,940$131,641

Median home value

$608,000$813,500

Median gross rent

$1,417$1,717

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Leisure Village	Point Pleasant Beach
Under 5	2.9%	1.9%
5 to 17	14.6%	12.0%
18 to 24	8.7%	14.4%
25 to 34	10.5%	9.4%
35 to 44	10.5%	9.4%
45 to 54	3.0%	13.1%
55 to 64	15.1%	18.5%
65 to 74	17.7%	11.0%
75 and over	17.0%	10.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Leisure Village	Point Pleasant Beach
White (non-Hispanic)	61.9%	83.5%
Black or African American	3.3%	0.9%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.3%
Asian	0.2%	0.6%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.2%
Two or more races	0.6%	1.0%
Hispanic or Latino	34.1%	13.5%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Leisure Village	Point Pleasant Beach
No high school diploma	10.5%	7.7%
High school graduate	42.7%	15.0%
Some college or associate's	22.6%	18.2%
Bachelor's degree	15.8%	43.6%
Graduate or professional degree	8.4%	15.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Leisure Village	Point Pleasant Beach
Drove alone	53.9%	53.1%
Carpooled	28.3%	9.9%
Public transit	0.0%	6.1%
Walked	1.5%	15.1%
Bicycle	0.0%	3.2%
Worked from home	16.2%	11.0%
Other means	0.0%	1.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Leisure Village	Point Pleasant Beach
1-unit, detached	17.3%	69.4%
1-unit, attached	51.6%	12.0%
2 to 4 units	6.3%	11.1%
5 to 19 units	4.5%	7.1%
20 or more units	20.3%	0.4%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Leisure Village	Point Pleasant Beach
Poverty rate	39.2%	11.2%
Average household size	2.29	2.50
Mean commute (minutes)	35	33
Median year structure built	1968	1960