Monmouth Population: Ups & Downs

While Americans wait for tabulations from the 2010 Census, the Monmouth County Planning Board released population figures for county towns through the year 2009. During the period 2000-2009, the county’s population grew 7.7% or by nearly 48,000 people to just under 663,000 total residents.

The county municipalities with the biggest changes in population over the past decade were:

Gains:

• Upper Freehold + 67.7%
• Tinton Falls + 23.0%
• Manalapan + 22.4
• Millstone + 17.2%
• Marlboro + 15.2%
• Freehold Twp + 13.4
• Holmdel + 10.7%
• Englishtown + 9.8%
• Long Branch + 9.2%
• Howell + 8.3%

Loses:

• Sea Girt – 4.4%
• Shrewsbury Twp. – 3.2%
• Deal – 2.5%
• Roosevelt – 0.9%
• Allenhurst – 0.7 %
• Spring Lake Heights – 0.4%
• Spring Lake – 0.2%
• Interlaken 0.0%
• Loch Arbour 0.0%

100 Years Ago—In 1910, Monmouth County had a population of 94,724 residents. Long Branch (13,298) and Asbury Park (10,105) were the two largest towns then. Now it’s Middletown (70,062) and Howell (52,946).