Ocean County · ~76,629 residents
76,629
Residents
10
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Brick Township is on the northern edge of Ocean County, between the Metedeconk River and the shore.
Ocean County was carved out of Monmouth in February 1850 — and Monmouth was one of the three counties, with Bergen and Somerset, where slaveholding in New Jersey was densest from 1737 to 1800. This township was inside Monmouth for all of that. New Jersey was the last northern state to free its slaves, and the manner of it is the point: the 1804 act freed nobody living, the 1846 act renamed those still held as "apprentices" bound to their owners, eighteen people remained enslaved in 1860, and the legislature voted the Thirteenth Amendment down in March 1865 before ratifying it in January 1866, after it was already binding.
Ocean County was set off from Monmouth County on 15 February 1850 — ten years before the last federal census to count enslaved people in New Jersey. From 1737 until 1800 the densest slaveholding in the state was in Bergen, Monmouth and Somerset. Lakewood, Toms River, Brick, Jackson and Manchester all sat in Monmouth through that period.
Source: New Jersey State Archives, county formation table; New Jersey Slavery Records project
Abortion reporting to the CDC is voluntary, and New Jersey is one of four jurisdictions that declines. Its own Department of Health publishes no count of induced terminations, by county or statewide. The state that wrote abortion access into its statutes does not record how often it happens.
There is no figure for Brick, or for Ocean County, because there is no figure for anywhere in New Jersey. The best available independent estimate is 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians statewide in 2025.
Sources: CDC, Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2022 (MMWR Surveillance Summaries) · Guttmacher Institute, Monthly Abortion Provision Study
No abortion facility in our directory operates inside Brick Township.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Brick Township.
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Brick shares Legislative District 10 with Toms River. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Brick Township is in District 10. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this municipality in Trenton.
“No recorded vote” means the member was not serving when the bill was voted on in January 10, 2022. It is not an abstention, and we do not present it as one.
Senate · District 10 · Republican
Assembly · District 10 · Republican
Assembly · District 10 · Republican
Congregations we know of in Brick Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Brick Township. We read every New Jersey congregation in the directory we work from — 106 of them — and found one in the whole state, in Glassboro. Abolitionists Rising, the movement's own national organisation, lists the same single church on its New Jersey page and no others. That is not a gap in the research. It is the situation.
If your church has taken a public position on abolition — from the pulpit, in a resolution, or in its own published words — tell us and we will verify it and list it here.
Brick is in Legislative District 10, which it shares with Toms River. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
New Jersey publishes no count at any geography and does not report to the CDC. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians in the state in 2025.
The immediate and total end of abortion, criminalised as homicide, with no exceptions, from fertilisation.
