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Asbury Park
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city in New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Monmouth
- Incorporated
- March 26, 1874 (as borough)
- Reincorporated
- February 28, 1897 (as city)
- Named after
- Francis Asbury
- Type
- Faulkner Act (council–manager)
- Body
- City Council
- Mayor
- John B. Moor (term ends December 31, 2026)
- Manager
- Adam Cruz
- Municipal clerk
- Lisa Esposito
- Total
- 1.61 sq mi (4.17 km )
- Land
- 1.43 sq mi (3.70 km )
- Water
- 0.18 sq mi (0.47 km ) 11.18%
- Rank
- 439th of 565 in state, 36th of 53 in county
- Elevation
- 16 ft (4.9 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 15,391
- Density
- 10,628.4/sq mi (4,103.6/km )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Named after
- Francis Asbury
- Official name
- Asbury Park
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Monmouth County
- Population
- 15188
- Area
- 4.151134
- Elevation
- 6
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Neptune Township
- Official website
- www.cityofasburypark.com
- Households
- 7185
- Dialing code
- 732
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- Commons category
- Asbury Park, New Jersey
- topic's main category
- Category:Asbury Park, New Jersey
- postal code
- 07712
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Asbury Park, New Jersey
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Asbury Park, New Jersey
- water as percent of area
- 11.17
- per capita income
- 43131
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- date of incorporation
- 1874-03-26
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Asbury Park (/æzbɛri/) is a beachfront city located on the Jersey Shore in Monmouth County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 15,188, a decrease of 928 (−5.8%) from the 2010 census count of 16,116, which in turn reflected a decline of 814 (−4.8%) from the 16,930 counted in the 2000 census.
In 2022, Asbury Park's beach was named one of the best in the world by Money and one of the best in the country by Travel + Leisure.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asbury Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.