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Lakewood Township is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census the township had a total population of 92,843, making Lakewood the largest community in Ocean County. The 2010 population represented an increase of 32,491 (53.8%) from the 60,352 residents enumerated during the 2000 Census, with the township ranking as the seventh-largest municipality in the state in 2010 after having been ranked 22nd in 2000. The sharp increase in population from 2000 to 2010 was led by increases in the township's Orthodox Jewish and Latino communities, and increased numbers of senior citizens in the township's retirement communities.
Lakewood was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 23, 1892, from portions of Brick Township. Portions of Howell Township in Monmouth County were annexed to Lakewood Township in 1929.
Lakewood is one of the hubs of Orthodox Judaism and is home to one of the largest yeshivas in the world. The large Orthodox population, comprising more than half of the township's population, wields considerable political clout in Lakewood Township, commanding a bloc of about 10,000 votes.
Lakewood CDP (2000 Census population of 36,065), Leisure Village (4,443) and Leisure Village East (4,497) are census-designated places and unincorporated areas located within Lakewood Township.
History
Lakewood was known as one of the New York City region's winter resorts at the turn of the 1900s. This was due to a pocket of climate that was believed to be 3 to 5 degrees warmer than the City. Its Lake Carasaljo and surrounding pine trees made for a picturesque holiday. The Rockefeller family had an estate which has been turned into Ocean County Park. The Jay Gould Estate is now Georgian Court University. Parts of The Amityville Horror were filmed there.
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Last Name, Given Name(s) | Death | Person ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Kingdon, Edith M. | Sunday 13 November 1921 | Lakewood Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, USA | I477275 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
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