Ocean County · ~46,252 residents
46,252
Residents
9
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Manchester is a large township in the west of Ocean County, about 46,000 people spread across more than eighty square miles of the Pine Barrens.
Ocean County was set off from Monmouth in February 1850 — one of the three counties, with Bergen and Somerset, where slaveholding in New Jersey was densest from 1737 until 1800. This ground was inside Monmouth for all of that period. New Jersey was the last northern state to free its slaves and did it by degrees, each defended as the realistic step: nobody living freed in 1804, the remaining enslaved renamed "apprentices" in 1846, eighteen still held in 1860, and the Thirteenth Amendment voted down in Trenton in March 1865.
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 Manchester, 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 Manchester Township.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Manchester Township.
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Manchester is in Legislative District 9. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Manchester Township is in District 9. 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 9 · Republican
Assembly · District 9 · Republican
Assembly · District 9 · Republican
Congregations we know of in Manchester Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Manchester 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.
Manchester is in Legislative District 9, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
New Jersey publishes no count at any geography and is one of four jurisdictions that declines to report abortion data 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.
