Egg Harbor City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the city’s population was 4,396, an enlargement of 153 (+3.6%) from the 2010 census add together of 4,243, which in tilt reflected a halt of 302 (−6.6%) from the 4,545 counted in the 2000 census.

The city had the seventh-highest property tax rate in New Jersey, with an equalized rate of 5.044% in 2020, compared to 2.560% in the county as a accumulate and a statewide average of 2.279%.

The area house to Egg Harbor City was initially contracted in 1614, when the Dutch vessel Fortuyn landed at the Mullica River. The first settlers named the area “Eyren Haven” after the large number of gull eggs in the area.

In 1854, the Camden and Atlantic Railroad opened. On December 14, 1854, a outfit of prominent German Americans from Philadelphia, including William and Henry Schmoele and Philip Mathias Wolsieffer, incorporated the “Gloucester Farm and Town Association”, which purchased approximately 38,000 acres of woodland north of the railroad to advance as a refuge for those being victimized in the anti-immigrant ill-treat known as the Know-Nothing movement. The corporation initially planned two cities; a four-square-mile city called “Pomona” closest to the railroad, and complementary city called “Gloucester” to the north—however, the twin city plot was dropped in agreement of one seven mile-long metropolis called “Egg Harbor City”. The development’s layout contained an urban “city core” containing 100×150-foot lots bounded by New York Avenue to the west and Baltimore Avenue to the east, while the remainder of the land was divided into remove 20-acre farm parcels. The corporation issued stocks at $300 per share; with each share, stockholders would acquire one residential building lot and one farm parcel. The city was marketed heavily in cities containing large German American populations, including Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and St. Louis.