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Cape May County has 16 municipalities spread across barrier islands, back bays, and the mainland at New Jersey's southern tip. The real estate mix includes Victorian homes, shore cottages, condominiums, duplexes, bayfront and oceanfront properties, and mainland single-family homes on larger lots. Ocean City, the Wildwoods, Sea Isle City, Avalon, Stone Harbor, and Cape May each have distinct resort identities, while Upper, Dennis, Middle, and Lower Townships contain a broader mix of year-round communities and coastal access. The Garden State Parkway, county shore routes, marinas, wildlife refuges, beaches, boardwalks, wineries, and preserved natural areas shape both daily life and the county's strong seasonal rhythm.
Community profiles updated October 17, 2026.
Avalon occupies the northern end of Seven Mile Island, with preserved high dunes separating many oceanfront streets from the beach. Street-end walkways pass through that vegetated edge, while fishing boats and marinas give the back-bay side a different relationship to the water.
Source: Cape May County: Avalon island setting, dunes and bayfrontAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Borough of AvalonAccessed 2026-07-19.
Victorian buildings give Cape May's streets a recognizable architectural character at the southern end of the peninsula. The city's seaside-resort history reaches back to eighteenth-century visitors from Philadelphia, and the National Historic Landmark district preserves the built setting of that long relationship with the shore.
Source: City of Cape May: architecture, peninsula setting and resort historyAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: City of Cape MayAccessed 2026-07-19.
At the cape's tip, Cape May Point sits where the ocean and Delaware Bay meet, on a migration route for birds and butterflies. Founded in 1875, the small community has also been known as Stites Beach and Seagrove.
Source: Cape May County: Cape May Point geography, migration and settlementAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Cape May PointAccessed 2026-07-19.
Source: Cape May Point State ParkAccessed 2026-07-19.
Dennis Township's identity is spread among villages, including Dennisville, Belleplain, Clermont and South Seaville. In Dennisville, the former 1874 schoolhouse now holds the township museum, while older homes associated with shipbuilders connect the village streets to the area's maritime past.
Source: Dennis Township History Museum: township villages and the former schoolhouseAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Cape May County: Historic Trail, Dennisville's shipbuilding-era homesAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Dennis TownshipAccessed 2026-07-19.
The Cape May Canal cuts across Lower Township, dividing a landscape of older settlements and Delaware Bay communities. Town Bank's origins reach back to seventeenth-century whaling, while places such as Cold Spring and Erma reflect the mainland villages that developed before the canal was built during World War II.
Source: Lower Township: settlement history and the Cape May CanalAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Lower TownshipAccessed 2026-07-19.
Cape May Court House gives Middle Township a county-seat center with older buildings along Main Street. Beyond that center, the township extends through marshes and bayside fishing villages toward Delaware Bay, bringing several distinct mainland communities together within one broad coastal landscape.
Source: Cape May County: Middle Township's Main Street, villages and bay landscapeAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Cape May County: Historic Trail and Cape May Court HouseAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Middle TownshipAccessed 2026-07-19.
Source: Cape May CountyAccessed 2026-07-19.
Hereford Inlet and its Victorian lighthouse give North Wildwood's northern waterfront a distinct landmark. The lighthouse dates to 1874, close to the beginnings of Anglesea, the fishing settlement that preceded the present city and connects this end of the island to a working maritime past.
Source: Cape May County: North Wildwood, Anglesea and Hereford Inlet LighthouseAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: City of North WildwoodAccessed 2026-07-19.
Ocean City's street plan grew from a Methodist camp-meeting settlement laid out on Peck's Beach in 1879. The Tabernacle grounds remain a physical link to that founding plan, around which cottages and hotels developed as bridges and the railroad connected the island resort with the mainland.
Source: City of Ocean City: Peck's Beach, founding plan and TabernacleAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Ocean CityAccessed 2026-07-19.
Sea Isle City stretches along Ludlam Island, with the oceanfront Promenade forming a long edge to the town. Its resort beginnings grew from Charles Kline Landis's nineteenth-century plans for the island, when canals, cottages and arriving railroads began replacing a largely undeveloped shoreline.
Source: Cape May County: Sea Isle City's oceanfront PromenadeAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management: Sea Isle City historic development, section 3.3.2.24Accessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Sea Isle CityAccessed 2026-07-19.
Stone Harbor's built-up island streets sit close to protected coastal habitat. A municipal bird sanctuary occupies land within the town, while Stone Harbor Point opens into beaches and dunes at Hereford Inlet, giving the southern shoreline a different character from the developed blocks farther inland.
Source: Cape May County: Stone Harbor's municipal bird sanctuaryAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Borough of Stone Harbor: Stone Harbor Point conservation areaAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Borough of Stone HarborAccessed 2026-07-19.
Upper Township brings together a largely rural mainland and the beach community of Strathmere. Older village centers such as Tuckahoe and Petersburg predate the Revolution, giving the township a settlement pattern that reaches from inland crossroads and river communities to the ocean shore.
Source: Upper Township: mainland villages and Strathmere historyAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Upper TownshipAccessed 2026-07-19.
Victorian homes and cultivated land sit close together in West Cape May, where farms remain part of the borough's landscape. Farm markets and the lima bean festival at Wilbraham Park keep its agricultural traditions visible alongside the residential streets.
Source: Cape May County: West Cape May's homes, farming and lima bean traditionAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Borough of West Cape MayAccessed 2026-07-19.
Grassy Sound and the Wildwood Canal frame West Wildwood's separate back-bay island. A single bridge connects it with the main Wildwoods island, while a mix of smaller vacation houses and taller replacement homes shows how this waterside borough's residential streets have changed over time.
Source: Cape May County: West Wildwood's island, waterways and housesAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Cape May County Property Tax LookupAccessed 2026-07-19.
Wildwood's broad beach and Boardwalk give the city a strong oceanfront spine, with amusement piers extending toward the water. The resort's midcentury architecture is visible in its Doo Wop motels, whose neon signs and distinctive forms remain part of the streetscape.
Source: Cape May County: Wildwood's Boardwalk, beach and Doo Wop architectureAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: City of WildwoodAccessed 2026-07-19.
Oceanfront motels and condominiums line Wildwood Crest's beach side, while houses face the back bay. Sunset Lake forms a western waterfront, giving the borough a lakeside shore as well as its broad Atlantic Ocean beach.
Source: Cape May County: Wildwood Crest's oceanfront, homes and Sunset LakeAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Borough of Wildwood CrestAccessed 2026-07-19.
Woodbine's rural setting surrounds a town that once served as a busy industrial center. The 1890s Brotherhood Synagogue on Washington Street marks the community's immigrant beginnings, while Woodbine Airport, once a military base, continues in use as a general aviation airfield.
Source: Cape May County: Woodbine's rural setting, synagogue and airfieldAccessed 2026-10-17.
Source: Borough of WoodbineAccessed 2026-07-19.