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Ocean County is a county located along the Jersey Shore in the south-central ration of the U.S. state of New Jersey, and the southernmost county in the New York metropolitan area. It is the by yourself U.S. county named Ocean. The county borders the Atlantic Ocean upon the east and in terms of total Place is the state’s largest county. Its county chair is Toms River.

Since 2020, Ocean County has been the fastest growing county in New Jersey, with a population of 637,229 recorded at the 2020 United States census, its highest decennial add together ever and ranking the county as the state’s sixth-most populous county, with an bump of 60,662 (+10.5%) from the 576,567 enumerated at the 2010 census, which in approach had reflected an enlargement of 65,651 (+12.8%) from the 510,916 counted at the 2000 census. Since 2010, Ocean County’s population has been growing faster than the United States as a whole. The United States Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Program estimated a 2022 population of 655,735, an growth of 18,506 (+2.9%) from the 2020 decennial census.

Ocean County was established upon February 15, 1850, from portions of Monmouth County, with the auxiliary of Little Egg Harbor Township which was annexed from Burlington County on March 30, 1891. The most populous municipality in the county is the rapidly growing Lakewood Township, with 135,158 residents in 2020, its highest decennial attach ever and an accumulation of 42,315 (+45.6%) from its 2010 census complement of 92,843; while Jackson Township covers 100.62 square miles (260.6 km²), the largest total area of any municipality in Ocean County.