2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Ocean City, NJ vs Dover, DE

#4 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#15 Emerging Metropolitan Areas

#65 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#80 Best Green Cities

#25 2005 Best Places to Live

#29 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#154 Best Green Cities

I've spent many summers in OC since the 1970s. It's a wonderful family town...a dry town! No alcohol sales, no bars! Long boardwalk with 2 amusement parks, a water  More

I adore OC. I live 6 blocks from the beach, 2 from the bay. Beautiful scenery. Peaceful surroundings. Summer resort time is a little hectic, but fun. Winters are  More

I have summered or lived in Ocean City, NJ since I was born 41 years ago. Change, change, change is the common theme in this city. One constant is safe, family fun! The  More

Key points are "an excellent quality of life and a low crime rate" as well as low taxes. Delaware attracts the highest percentage of retirees, plus people of all other  More

Dover, DE is a great placed to live. I work at OCEAN, which is a non profit organization that sponsors high school exchange students. We had foreign students reside in  More

Dover, like any town other than Newark, is very unsophisticated, boring, unfriendly, and uneducated. I've resided in many states and Delaware will be the state that I  More