Ocean City, NJ Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 1.1 miles northeast of Ocean City, NJ
The coast 1.1 miles northeast of Ocean City, NJ is actually gaining ground, not losing it: USGS's transects measure 2.2 feet of accretion a year here, sediment building up rather than washing away. At that rate, the shoreline has gained roughly 22 feet over the last decade.
What "Ocean City" means on this page
USGS surveys the coast in transects spaced a few hundred feet apart; this page groups the nearest ones into a single ~3.5-mile reading for the stretch closest to Ocean City, NJ, rather than showing one arbitrary line. Segment center: 39.28, -74.58. Survey years: 2007-2009, method LRR, from USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic shoreline-change assessment. That's how current the data is here, real, but not a live feed, since a shoreline survey is a major undertaking, not an annual check-in.
What 2.2 ft/yr means over time
Holding the 2.2 ft/yr accretion rate 1.1 miles northeast of Ocean City, NJ for 25 years would add roughly 55 feet of shoreline, again assuming nothing about the local sediment supply changes.
Where this fits nationally
34 transects feed this segment's number; 0% of them individually measured retreat. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.17 ft/yr. Sorted from fastest erosion to fastest growth across all 1211 measured segments nationally, this one lands at 1162. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1119. Ocean Park, WA sits at national rank 1180 for growth (2.86 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2511 miles from here. Ocean City, NJ, 1.8 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, reading accretion (beach growing) at 1.02 ft/yr.
Not this whole stretch, just Ocean City itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.