Local city information for Oceanport, NJ

Oceanport is a Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 5,807.

Oceanport was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 6, 1920, from portions of Eatontown Township (now Eatontown), based on the results of a referendum held on May 11, 1920.

New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Oceanport as its 4th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.

Oceanport is located at (40.317010, -74.015632).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10.0 km²), of which, 3.2 square miles (8.3 km²) of it is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km²) of it (16.32%) is water.

Oceanport borders Little Silver to the NW, Long Branch to the east, Eatontown to the SW, and West Long Branch to the SE. It also shares a water border to the NE with Monmouth Beach and forms a peninsula, jutting into the Shrewsbury River.

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