Middlesex County · ~47,165 residents
47,165
Residents
19
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Sayreville is a borough of about 47,000 in Middlesex County, at the mouth of the Raritan opposite Perth Amboy.
Middlesex 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. The 1804 act freed no one then living. The 1846 act renamed those still held as "apprentices" bound to their present owners. Eighteen people remained enslaved here in 1860, and in March 1865 the Legislature voted against the amendment abolishing slavery, ratifying it only the following January, after it had already become law without them.
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 Sayreville, 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
No abortion facility in our directory operates inside Sayreville. The nearest is the Planned Parenthood centre in Perth Amboy, across the river.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Sayreville Borough.
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Sayreville is in Legislative District 19 with Perth Amboy and Woodbridge. Its three legislators are below.
Sayreville Borough is in District 19. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this municipality in Trenton.
Senate · District 19 · Democrat
Assembly · District 19 · Democrat
Assembly · District 19 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Sayreville Borough that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Sayreville Borough. 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.
Sayreville is in Legislative District 19, which it shares with Perth Amboy and Woodbridge. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
The Planned Parenthood centre on Market Street in Perth Amboy, across the Raritan.
New Jersey publishes no count at any geography. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 in 2025.
