Egg Harbor City is a very small coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 4,545 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Egg Harbor City is the 351st largest community in New Jersey.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Egg Harbor City is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Egg Harbor City is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Egg Harbor City who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.21%), sales jobs (11.33%), and food service (6.53%).

One of the nice things about Egg Harbor City is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the city are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

Being a small city, Egg Harbor City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Egg Harbor City Information and Demographics

In Egg Harbor City, just 10.18% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Egg Harbor City in 2000 was $15,151, which is low income relative to New Jersey, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $60,604 for a family of four.

Egg Harbor City is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Egg Harbor City home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Egg Harbor City is White, followed by African-American. Egg Harbor City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.16% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Egg Harbor City include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Egg Harbor City is English. Some people also speak Spanish.