Asbury Park is a somewhat small coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 16,930 people and 12 constituent neighborhoods, Asbury Park is the 125th largest community in New Jersey.

Asbury Park is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Asbury Park is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Asbury Park who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.20%), sales jobs (12.60%), and healthcare support services (7.49%).

One of the nice things about Asbury Park 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.

In Asbury Park, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day even though Asbury Park is a relatively small city. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.

Asbury Park Information and Demographics

In Asbury Park, just 11.17% 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 Asbury Park in 2000 was $13,516, which is low income relative to New Jersey and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $54,064 for a family of four.

Asbury Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Asbury Park home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Asbury Park is African-American, followed by White. Asbury Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.49% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Asbury Park include Haitian, Italian, Irish, and Jamaican.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Asbury Park's cultural character, accounting for 18.72% of the city's population.

The languages spoken by people in Asbury Park are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Asbury Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, French Creole, and French.