Strathmere, New Jersey.
Typical home $1,691,874 (+12.7% in a year). Ocean City, NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$5,889 (+197%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $191,137 +13%
- $1,500,737$1,691,874 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $598,473 +55%
- $1,093,401$1,691,874 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Strathmere$8,880
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Strathmere, NJ rose 12.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Strathmere, Cape May County, New Jersey
Strathmere, in Cape May County, had 137 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Cape May County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cape May County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Strathmere is a very small community on the New Jersey shore, with far fewer residents than most towns and a quiet, close-knit feel. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across the country, which fits a barrier-island setting by the water.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Cape May County, the largest workplaces include Cape Regional Medical Center, the Middle Township Public School District and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has gained a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Corson's Inlet State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are the Cape May National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area, and Gillians Wonderland Pier and Island Waterpark, an amusement park. A longer drive brings you to Steel Pier, also an amusement park. Winters are cold and summers are hot, so the shore is at its busiest in the warm months.
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What people in Cape May County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cape May County had 43,316 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belleplain Station Forest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cape May County
- Cape Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital674FTE
- Middle Township Public School DistrictSchool district465FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters439
- Ocean City School DistrictSchool district408FTE
- Lower Township Elementary School DistrictSchool district380FTE
- Upper Township School DistrictSchool district251FTE
- Cape May County Special Services School DistrictSchool district232FTE
- Shelter Haven HospitalityHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities226
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 61 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,373 people in all across the county; Strathmere has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Strathmere’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Cape May County and the Ocean City, NJ metro.
Strathmere home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Strathmere$1,691,874
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Strathmere address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Strathmere — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.