About Sea Girt

Sea Girt is a very small coastal borough (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 2,148 people and just one neighborhood, Sea Girt is the 451st largest community in New Jersey.

Sea Girt is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 96.50% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Sea Girt is a borough of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sea Girt who work in sales jobs (20.92%), management occupations (20.59%), and office and administrative support jobs (10.30%).

Also of interest is that Sea Girt has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 8.04% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

In addition, Sea Girt is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Sea Girt is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Sea Girt really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Sea Girt perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

The borough is also nautical, which means that parts of Sea Girt are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery. This is certainly the case with Sea Girt, which has a vibrant tourist economy.

One downside of living in Sea Girt is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sea Girt, the average commute to work is 42.32 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small borough, Sea Girt does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Sea Girt Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Sea Girt, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Sea Girt is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 58.57% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Sea Girt in 2000 was $63,871, which is wealthy relative to New Jersey and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $255,484 for a family of four. However, Sea Girt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sea Girt home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sea Girt is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Sea Girt include Irish, Italian, German, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Sea Girt is English.