The Wildwoods

The Wildwoods are a group of five communities (four distinct municipalities and one census-designated place) in Cape May County, New Jersey. These are situated on the Island of Five Mile Beach, a barrier island facing the Atlantic Ocean. These Jersey Shore communities have relatively small year-round populations that swell significantly during the summer with vacationers.^[1]

While the communities have no shared governance (other than Cape May County), with each community reporting to a different local government, the term is often used to refer collectively to the area. All of the communities are part of the greater Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area.

From north to south, the five communities are:

• North Wildwood (2010 Census population: 4,041)^[2]
• West Wildwood (pop. 603)^[3]
• Wildwood (pop. 5,325)^[4]
• Wildwood Crest (pop. 3,270)^[5]
• Diamond Beach (pop. 136),^[6] a census-designated place in Lower Township