Ocean County · ~60,704 residents
60,704
Residents
12
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Jackson is a large, mostly wooded township in the north-west of Ocean County, with about 61,000 residents spread across it.
Ocean County was set off from Monmouth County in February 1850 — ten years before the last federal census to count enslaved people in New Jersey. Monmouth was one of the three counties, with Bergen and Somerset, where slaveholding in this state was densest from 1737 until 1800, and Jackson sat inside it for all of that. The state's abolition, when it came, came by degrees: nobody living freed in 1804, the remaining enslaved renamed "apprentices" in 1846, eighteen still held in 1860.
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 Jackson, 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 Jackson Township.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Jackson Township.
Every abortion facility in New Jersey →
Jackson is in Legislative District 12. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Jackson Township is in District 12. 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 12 · Republican
Assembly · District 12 · Republican
Assembly · District 12 · Republican
Congregations we know of in Jackson Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Jackson 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.
Jackson is in Legislative District 12, which 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 in 2025.
The immediate and total end of abortion, criminalised as homicide, with no exceptions, from fertilisation — not its reduction by degrees.
