Middlesex County · ~56,939 residents
56,939
Residents
19
Legislative district
3
Legislators
1
Abortion facility
Perth Amboy is a port city of about 57,000 at the mouth of the Raritan, at the eastern edge of Middlesex County.
The county around it held 1,564 people in slavery in 1800, out of 1,827 Black residents — more than five in six. New Jersey was the last northern state to free its slaves and chose to do it gradually: the 1804 act freed no one then living, the 1846 act renamed those still held as "apprentices" bound to their owners, eighteen remained enslaved in 1860, and the Legislature voted the Thirteenth Amendment down in March 1865. Each of those steps was defended in its day as the achievable one.
Middlesex County recorded 1,827 Black residents in the 1800 census, of whom 1,564 — more than five in six — were enslaved. Freedom and Blackness were not the same thing in this county, and the 1804 act did not make them so.
Source: 1800 federal census, as compiled by the 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 Perth Amboy, or for Middlesex 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
One abortion facility operates in Perth Amboy, a Planned Parenthood centre on Market Street:
Planned Parenthood — Perth Amboy Center
450 Market Street, Perth Amboy, NJ 08861
(833) 377-8474
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Perth Amboy is in Legislative District 19 with Woodbridge and Sayreville. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Perth Amboy is in District 19. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this city in Trenton.
Senate · District 19 · Democrat
Assembly · District 19 · Democrat
Assembly · District 19 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Perth Amboy that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Perth Amboy. 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.
Perth Amboy is in Legislative District 19, which it shares with Woodbridge and Sayreville. 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 is one of four jurisdictions that declines to 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 the moment of fertilisation.
