{"id":2615,"date":"2016-07-22T01:29:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T05:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2016-07-22T02:42:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T06:42:01","slug":"seaside-heights-is-home-to-more-singles-than-any-other-n-j-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/07\/seaside-heights-is-home-to-more-singles-than-any-other-n-j-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Heights is Home to More Singles Than Any Other N.J. Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1490\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4127.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Attractions at Casino Pier, Summer 2015. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1490\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1490\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4127-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Attractions at Casino Pier, Summer 2015. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4127-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4127-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4127-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4127-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4127-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attractions at Casino Pier, Summer 2015. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Haven\u2019t got a date? Well, we have the place for you to hang out this summer weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Seaside Heights has more single residents, by percentage, than nearly any other town in the Garden State. Reporters at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2016\/07\/want_to_meet_your_soulmate_move_to_the_cities_or_s.html\">NJ.com crunched the numbers<\/a> this week, and while most\u00a0of Ocean County had higher-than-average ratios of singled to married residents, Seaside Heights topped them all.<\/p>\n<p>A full 78 percent of Heights residents are single, compared to low percentages in Lavallette and Seaside Park. In Toms River, 49 percent of residents were single, the same percentage as Brick. Up the island, just 37 percent of Bay Head\u2019s residents aren\u2019t hitched, lower than Point Pleasant Beach\u2019s 47 percent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width='100%' height='520' frameborder='0' src='https:\/\/stirzize.carto.com\/viz\/b0215940-4ac1-11e6-9d6c-0ee66e2c9693\/embed_map' allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seaside Heights\u2019 high number of singles is tied for first in the state with Asbury Park. Salem, Camden and New Brunswick \u2013 likely because it\u2019s a college town \u2013 also made the top five.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/07\/seaside-heights-is-home-to-more-singles-than-any-other-n-j-town\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t got a date? 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