Atlantic City, NJ Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 1.7 miles east of Atlantic City, NJ
1.7 miles east of Atlantic City, NJ, the coast is advancing, not retreating, at a measured 2.07 feet a year, sediment accumulating faster than any erosion USGS recorded here. At that rate, the shoreline has gained roughly 20.7 feet over the last decade.
What this reading actually covers
Atlantic City, NJ is the nearest named place, 1.7 miles away, to a ~3.5-mile stretch of coast USGS has surveyed - the reading below covers that whole stretch, not a single property in it. Segment center: 39.37, -74.42. USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2007-2009, computing the rate with its LRR method. Other US regions were surveyed in different years, sometimes decades apart, so this page states its own rather than implying one national vintage.
What 2.07 ft/yr means over time
Holding the 2.07 ft/yr accretion rate 1.7 miles east of Atlantic City, NJ for 25 years would add roughly 52 feet of shoreline, again assuming nothing about the local sediment supply changes.
Where this fits nationally
17 transects feed this segment's number; 0% of them individually measured retreat. USGS's confidence interval here is ±1.4 ft/yr. This segment ranks 1159 of 1211 measured US coastal segments, ordered from fastest erosion to fastest growth. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1119. Fort Myers Beach, FL sits at national rank 990 for growth (0.39 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 992 miles from here. 1.9 miles up the coast, Atlantic City, NJ shows 1.38 ft/yr of accreting.
One address near Atlantic City: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.