Union Beach
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borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Monmouth
- Incorporated
- April 16, 1925
- Type
- Borough
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- Charles W. Cocuzza ( R , term ends December 31, 2027)
- Administrator
- Robert M. Howard Jr.
- Municipal clerk
- Alexandra Sweeney (acting)
- Total
- 1.88 sq mi (4.87 km )
- Land
- 1.78 sq mi (4.61 km )
- Water
- 0.10 sq mi (0.26 km ) 5.32%
- Rank
- 421st of 565 in state, 33rd of 53 in county
- Elevation
- 3 ft (0.91 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 5,671
- Density
- 3,211.6/sq mi (1,240.0/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- borough of New Jersey
- Official name
- Union Beach
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Monmouth County
- Population
- 5723
- Area
- 4.893679
- Elevation
- 3
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Keansburg
- Official website
- www.ubnj.net
- Image
- Union Beach, NJ war memorial.jpg
- Households
- 1867
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- Commons category
- Union Beach, New Jersey
- inception
- 1925-04-16
- water as percent of area
- 4.5156
- per capita income
- 43512
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Encyclopedic overview
Union Beach is a borough on Raritan Bay and the northern Jersey Shore in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough is a small coastal bedroom suburb of New York City in the New York metropolitan area, with views of Manhattan visible in the distance from the bayfront beach. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 5,723, a decrease of 522 (−8.4%) from the 2010 census count of 6,245, which in turn reflected a decline of 404 (−6.1%) from the 6,649 counted in the 2000 census.
Union Beach was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 16, 1925, from portions of Raritan Township (now Hazlet), based on the results of a referendum held on April 16, 1925. A 100-acre (40 ha) farm in the future borough was owned by the Poole family since the days of the American Revolutionary War. Following the development of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Poole Farm became the site of the Union Subdivision in 1908, while an area that had been called East Point Beach Estates was renamed Union Beach by developer Charles Carr in 1920.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Union Beach” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.