Ocean County · ~99,873 residents
99,873
Residents
10
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Toms River is the county seat of Ocean County and its largest municipality, on the shore in the centre of the county.
Ocean County was created out of Monmouth County in February 1850. That matters for a page about abolition, because Monmouth was one of the three counties — with Bergen and Somerset — where slaveholding in New Jersey was densest from 1737 until 1800. This shore was inside that county for the whole of the period. New Jersey was the last northern state to free its slaves and did it by stages: no living person 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 Toms River, 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 Toms River Township.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Toms River Township.
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Toms River is in Legislative District 10, which it shares with Brick. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Toms River 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 Toms River Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Toms River 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.
Toms River is in Legislative District 10, 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 abortions provided by clinicians in the state in 2025.
The immediate and total end of abortion, criminalised as homicide, with no exceptions, from fertilisation — not its reduction by degrees.
