Cape May
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Cape May
- Incorporated
- March 8, 1848, as Cape Island Borough
- Reincorporated
- March 10, 1851, as Cape Island City
- Named after
- Cornelius Jacobsen Mey
- Type
- Faulkner Act (council–manager)
- Body
- City Council
- Mayor
- Zachary Mullock (term ends December 31, 2028)
- City manager
- Paul E. Dietrich Sr.
- Municipal clerk
- Erin C. Burke
- Total
- 2.90 sq mi (7.50 km )
- Land
- 2.47 sq mi (6.41 km )
- Water
- 0.42 sq mi (1.10 km ) 14.59%
- Rank
- 341st of 565 in state, 8th of 16 in county
- Elevation
- 10 ft (3.0 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 2,757
- Density
- 1,119.2/sq mi (432.1/km )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Cape May (sometimes Cape May City) is a city and seaside resort located at the southern tip of Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located on the Atlantic Ocean near the mouth of the Delaware Bay, it is one of the country's oldest vacation resort destinations. The city, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. It is the southernmost municipality in New Jersey.
As of the 2020 United States census, the city's resident population was 2,768, a decrease of 839 (−23.3%) from the 2010 census count of 3,607, which in turn reflected a decline of 427 (−10.6%) from the 4,034 counted in the 2000 census. In the summer, Cape May's population is expanded by as many as 40,000 to 50,000 visitors. The entire city of Cape May is designated the Cape May Historic District, a National Historic Landmark due to its concentration of Victorian architecture.