Moving to Point Pleasant: Pros, Cons & What to Know
Moving to "Point Pleasant" first means understanding it's genuinely two real, separate, adjacent New Jersey municipalities -- a boating-canal borough and an oceanfront boardwalk beach -- often used interchangeably but with real, different character and costs.
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Learn moreTwo real towns, one common name
Point Pleasant Borough (18,177 residents, 2020 Census) is a genuine year-round boating town built around a canal-and-lagoon network. Point Pleasant Beach (4,766 residents), separately incorporated immediately to its east, is home to the area's real boardwalk and Jenkinson's amusement complex. Confirm which one a specific listing sits in before comparing prices.
Budget for real, substantial coastal flood exposure
Point Pleasant Beach's own official disclosure states the entire borough is subject to flooding given its position between the Atlantic Ocean, Manasquan Inlet/River, and a canal. Point Pleasant Borough carries its own real, disclosed tidal-canal flood exposure along its lagoon network.
A genuinely affordable Jersey Shore option -- in the Borough
Point Pleasant Borough's $333,500 median home value runs genuinely more affordable than most of this project's other Jersey Shore markets, with a below-statewide-average 1.56% effective property tax rate.
Key takeaways
- "Point Pleasant" genuinely means two separate municipalities -- confirm which one before you compare listings, schools, or crime data.
- Both municipalities carry real, disclosed coastal or tidal flood exposure -- standard homeowners insurance does not cover flood damage.
- Point Pleasant Borough's housing runs genuinely more affordable than most other Jersey Shore markets in this dataset.
- Point Pleasant Beach is home to the area's real boardwalk and Jenkinson's amusement complex.
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