Aberdeen is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, home to about 19,332 people across 5.4 square miles. Its ZIP code is 07721, and parts of 07735 and 07747 are in Aberdeen too.
Homes sold for a median of $348 per square foot in the three months ending August 2026, a seller’s market.
Mostly Aberdeen; also Old Bridge
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Lenape villages and farms dotted this stretch of the Raritan Bay shore long before colonists arrived, and creek names such as Matawan, Mohingson and Luppatatong carry that legacy. New Netherland bought the south side of the bay from the Lenape in 1650 but never settled it. The township was created on February 23, 1857, as Matavan Township, carved from Raritan Township (today's Hazlet); the spelling became Matawan in 1882, and Matawan Borough split off as a separate municipality in 1895.
Industry and resorts followed. Brickyards and tile and pottery plants operated in the township; the Charles Gehlhaus Company, a brick and clay firm in Cliffwood, leased part of its yard to Western Electric in 1919 for a short-wave radio research station that Bell Laboratories ran from 1925. Karl Jansky built his receiver there in 1929 before the work moved to Holmdel. On the bay, developers Morrisey and Walker laid out Cliffwood Beach as a summer resort of bungalows from 1923, adding a mile-long boardwalk, Treasure Lake and a saltwater pool that became a regional draw. Hurricanes in the mid-twentieth century wrecked the boardwalk and amusements.
The largest change came in the early 1960s, when Levitt and Sons built Strathmore in the township's southeast corner, starting with plans for 1,280 houses on about 498 acres and later adding hundreds more. To give the township an identity distinct from Matawan Borough, voters chose the name Aberdeen on November 8, 1977, a name that also puts it first alphabetically among New Jersey municipalities.
Aberdeen is a suburban township split into two separate pieces by a narrow strip of Matawan Borough near Route 79. The northern piece runs to Raritan Bay and holds Cliffwood and Cliffwood Beach, divided by Route 35; the southern piece holds Strathmore and other neighborhoods near Route 34. Other named sections include Freneau, Oakshades, River Gardens and Woodfield, and three ZIP codes serve the township. Residential areas sit alongside light industry and shopping centers on the highways.
Housing reflects distinct eras. Cliffwood Beach grew from 1920s summer bungalows on the bayfront and its streets still run close to the bayfront and Treasure Lake. Strathmore is a large early-1960s Levitt subdivision whose original models included a Cape Cod, a ranch, two Colonials and a one-and-a-half-story design; it is organized into ten neighborhoods and seven parks, each named for the first letter of its streets, and the builder also set aside a 19.5-acre shopping center site on Route 34 and space for a swim and tennis club. In Cliffwood, the former Gehlhaus brickyard land around County Road and Route 35 is now taken up by commercial uses, including a strip mall.
The township shares its public school system with Matawan through the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District, whose central offices are on Crest Way in Aberdeen. Along the bay, the waterfront at Cliffwood Beach was rebuilt after Superstorm Sandy with a new Veterans Park and a seawall walkway.
Aberdeen-Matawan station, at Main Street and Atlantic Avenue on the Aberdeen-Matawan border, is served by every train on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line. Trains run north through Perth Amboy, Rahway and Newark to New York Penn Station, with a stop at the Newark Liberty International Airport station, and south through Hazlet, Red Bank and Long Branch, where riders bound for the shore towns down to Bay Head change to diesel shuttles. The station has commuter parking, including a large lot on the Aberdeen side.
The Garden State Parkway has an interchange in the township at Exit 118, and Route 34 and Route 35 cross its southern and northern pieces. NJ Transit bus routes 133, 135 and 817 serve the township, with route 817 running local service through Cliffwood Beach.
For walking and cycling, the northern section of the county's paved Henry Hudson Trail begins at Lloyd Road and Clark Street on the Aberdeen-Keyport border and runs about 12 miles east along the Bayshore, while its southern section ends at Church Street in neighboring Matawan.
Freneau Woods Park, a 334-acre county park at 360 Monastery Lane, protects woodland along the headwaters of Matawan Creek and Lake Lefferts, with trails from the Monastery Lane and Greenwood Avenue entrances, a visitor center and free naturalist programs. It is named for Philip Freneau, the Revolutionary War poet whose family once owned part of the land.
On the bay, Veterans Park at Ocean Boulevard and Lakeshore Drive in Cliffwood Beach reopened in 2017 after Sandy damage with a pirate ship-themed spray park, playgrounds, a picnic grove, a multi-purpose ball field, a kayak and small boat launch and a band shell with a veterans memorial. The Aberdeen Sea Walk, about half a mile long behind the seawall between Beach Drive and Lakeshore Drive, opened in 2018 with fishing outcrops, benches at overlooks and a gazebo.
The Matawan Aberdeen Public Library at 165 Main Street in Matawan serves both towns, and the Matawan Historical Society publishes research on Cliffwood Beach, Strathmore and the Bell Labs station. The Henry Hudson Trail, starting at the Keyport border, is the closest long-distance walking and biking route.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)19 miles away |
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| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Newark, NJ21 miles away |
| Nearest city of 1 million+ | New York, NY23 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Aberdeen; driving is longer.
Source: Airports from OurAirports (scheduled passenger service); city centers and populations from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: Members of Congress from the congress-legislators project; districts from the Census Bureau’s relationship files; governor and mayor from Wikidata.
Aberdeen had 19,329 residents in the 2020 census, up 11% since 2000.
It’s the 145th largest of 565 towns in New Jersey by population.
Monmouth County grew from 82,057 residents in 1900 to 643,615 in 2020.
Monmouth County, 1900–2020
Source: U.S. Census Bureau decennial censuses (counties 1900–1990 from the Bureau’s historical county file).
Average highs peak around 87°F in summer, and winter lows average 23°F. About 48.5 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Freehold-Marlboro, NJ weather station (7 miles away).
257,734 jobs at 19,883 businesses in Monmouth County. The biggest industries by employees:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023 (private employers; jobs counted where people work).
44 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Aberdeen.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 1 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 1 |
| Dentists | 1 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 8 |
| Mental health providers | 28 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 5 |
Source: Hospitals from CMS Hospital General Information (ratings are CMS overall star ratings); straight-line distances; providers from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), by practice address and primary specialty.
Parks (22 nearby)
Grocery stores (5 nearby)
Pharmacies
Libraries (1 nearby)
Museums (1 nearby)
Theaters and performance venues
Counts are within about 1.5 miles of the center of town.
Source: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright), as mapped by volunteers; it can miss places or include closed ones.
Established in 1857.
Source: Wikidata (wikidata.org), the free knowledge base; people are listed by place of birth.
Public schools here are run by Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge Park Elementary SchoolAberdeen | Pre-K–K | 286 | Public | 1.3 mi |
| Cliffwood Elementary SchoolCliffwood | Pre-K–3 | 358 | Public | 1.3 mi |
| Strathmore Elementary SchoolAberdeen | Pre-K–3 | 481 | Public | 1.3 mi |
| Lloyd Road Elementary SchoolAberdeen | 4–5 | 519 | Public | 1.3 mi |
| Matawan-Aberdeen Middle SchoolCliffwood | 6–8 | 835 | Public | 1.0 mi |
| Matawan Regional High SchoolAberdeen | 9–12 | 1,038 | Public | 0.7 mi |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, NCES: Common Core of Data (2024-2025) for public schools. Listed by address; we don’t rate schools.
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Shares ZIP codes with Old Bridge, Matawan, Keyport and Union Beach.
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