Who's moving to and from Ocean County, New Jersey?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 20,994 people in, 19,950 out. Most were moving between New Jersey counties.

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Net change
+1,044 people
+286 households
Arrivals' income
$99.3k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$87.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Ocean County's newcomers came from in New Jersey

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other New Jersey counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like Kings County, NY, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 6 in 10 already lived in New Jersey. People, 2022–23.

  1. Monmouth County4,657
  2. Kings County, NY1,548
  3. Middlesex County1,471
  4. Bergen County852
  5. Union County779
  6. Burlington County617
  7. Hudson County605
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)3,049

Where did people go?

About 5 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Monmouth County4,088
  2. Burlington County1,181
  3. Middlesex County815
  4. Atlantic County528
  5. Mercer County403
  6. Hudson County386
  7. Bergen County367
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)3,773

Not counted above

Arrived from abroad
212 people
Left for abroad
190 people

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Ocean usually growing from moves?

Yes. It has had more arriving than departing households every year since 2015–16.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+28622–23††‡†
Net migration of Ocean County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14+271
2014–15 †−268
2015–16+695
2016–17 †+2,488
2017–18+1,383
2018–19 ‡+1,679
2019–20+3,517
2020–21+2,814
2021–22+1,083
2022–23 †+286

The IRS changed its processing in 2014–15, 2016–17 and 2022–23. Compare years between the dotted lines. ‡ County disclosure-method change in 2018–19: small counts began being deleted rather than reassigned to similar categories. County figures across this break may not be comparable.

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Moved Where. “Who's moving to and from Ocean County, New Jersey?” movedwhere.com/county/ocean-county-nj. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.