[27] Cape May Point was called Stites Beach until 1876 when the name was changed to Seagrove.

[28] It was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 19, 1878, from portions of Lower Township, based on the results of a referendum held three days earlier.

[30][31] The remains of SS Atlantus World War I-era concrete ship are located of the coast of Cape May Point, next to Sunset Beach.

[1][2] Cape May Point borders Lower Township, the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay.

Julie Lasky of The New York Times wrote that "the houses appear relatively modest", and that the borough "lacks the fanciful architecture of Cape May".

[36] The 2010 United States census counted 291 people, 164 households, and 100 families in the borough.

[45] As of the 2000 United States census[16] there were 241 people, 133 households, and 77 families residing in the borough.

The racial makeup of the borough was 95.02% White, 2.07% African American, 0.41% Asian, and 2.49% from two or more races.

[46][44] Cape May Point operates under the Walsh Act commission form of government, first created to rebuild the city of Galveston, Texas after the devastating Hurricane of 1900.

[7] Cape May Point is one of 30 (of the 564) municipalities statewide to use this form of government, most in shore communities, down from a peak of 60 early in the 20th century.

[57][58][59] For the 119th United States Congress, New Jersey's 2nd congressional district is represented by Jeff Van Drew (R, Dennis Township).

[61] For the 2024-2025 session, the 1st legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Mike Testa (R, Vineland) and in the General Assembly by Antwan McClellan (R, Ocean City) and Erik K. Simonsen (R, Lower Township).

[62] Cape May County is governed by a five-person Board of County Commissioners whose members are elected at-large on a partisan basis to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year; At an annual reorganization held each January, the commissioners select one member to serve as director and another to serve as vice-director.

[63] As of 2025[update], Cape May County's Commissioners are Director Leonard C. Desiderio (R, Sea Isle City, 2027),[64] Robert Barr (R, Ocean City; 2025),[65] Will Morey (R, Wildwood Crest; 2026),[66] Melanie Collette (R. Middle Township; 2026),[67] and Vice-Director Andrew Bulakowski (R, Lower Township; 2025).

[68][63][69] The county's constitutional officers are Clerk Rita Marie Rothberg (R, 2025, Ocean City),[70][71] Sheriff Robert Nolan (R, 2026, Lower Township)[72][73] and Surrogate E. Marie Hayes (R, 2028, Ocean City).

[78][79] In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 53.9% of the vote (103 cast), ahead of Republican John McCain, who received 44.5% (85 votes), with 191 ballots cast among the borough's 203 registered voters, for a turnout of 94.1%.

[80] In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 53.3% of the vote (114 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush, who received around 45.8% (98 votes), with 214 ballots cast among the borough's 237 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 90.3.

[94] The three-municipality law enforcement arrangement, which had been discussed for over 25 years, was the first of its kind in New Jersey and proved popular.

Joe Jordan, author of Cape May Point, The Illustrated History-1875 to the Present, stated that "if one is to believe local gossip" that the jail likely served as a drunk tank, and Jordan wrote that it "may have held several world's records as the smallest jail, with the fewest inmates, and the shortest periods of incarceration.

Its water costs increased when Cape May City built a desalinization plant in the late 1990s.

[117] No Interstate, U.S., state or major county highways serve Cape May Point.

The plant hardiness zone at Cape May Point Beach is 7b with an average annual extreme minimum air temperature of 8.1 °F (−13.3 °C).

[122] Bill Barlow of the Press of Atlantic City wrote that it is "A beloved local landmark".

It later closed, and the sisters spent $9,000 to buy the property in 1909, which it called Saint Mary.

The COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey, starting in 2020, meant that the group could no longer hold retreats there, and in 2021 the order announced that Saint Mary was closing.

[122] The Cape May Point Science Center opened in June 2023 in the Saint Mary building that it had acquired the previous year for $5.5 million.