Neptune is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, home to about 28,265 people across 8.1 square miles. Its ZIP codes are 07753 and 07756.
Homes sold for a median of $539 per square foot across 2 ZIP codes in the three months ending August 2026, and all of them were seller’s markets.
Mostly Neptune; also Tinton Falls and Neptune City
Each card is that ZIP code’s whole market, including any part outside Neptune. Seller’s market: under 4 months of supply; buyer’s market: over 6. Methodology
Neptune Township was incorporated by the state legislature on February 26, 1879, from part of Ocean Township, and takes its name from the Roman god of the sea. Several shore communities were later carved from it, including Neptune City in 1881 and Bradley Beach in 1893; an attempt to make Ocean Grove a separate borough in 1920 was struck down, and its land returned to the township in 1921.
Ocean Grove, the township's oceanfront section, began in 1869 as a planned summer camp-meeting town on about 300 acres of woods and high dunes between two ponds, now Wesley Lake and Fletcher Lake. Its founders received a state charter the following summer and in 1870 laid out a tight grid of small 30-by-60-foot lots. Cottages, hotels and a seasonal tent colony filled the grid over the next decades, and the wooden Great Auditorium, built on steel trusses over stone foundations, was completed in 1894. The district, bounded by the two lakes, Route 71 and the ocean, was placed on the state register in 1975 and the National Register in 1976 for its community planning and its Queen Anne, Stick-style and Craftsman buildings.
Inland, Shark River Hills opened in 1923 as a summer resort development on a hilly peninsula along the Shark River. The county opened Shark River Park, the first park in the Monmouth County system, in 1961. Superstorm Sandy heavily damaged the Ocean Grove boardwalk and fishing pier in 2012.
Neptune covers about eight square miles, running from the Atlantic Ocean west to the Garden State Parkway, with the Shark River estuary along its southern edge and Asbury Park and Ocean Township to the north. The township names its sections as Ocean Grove, Shark River Hills, Mid-Town, Bradley Park, the Gables, Seaview Island and West Neptune, and older place names such as Green Grove, Summerfield and Whitesville are still in use.
Ocean Grove, about a square mile of tree-lined streets between Wesley and Fletcher lakes, holds what the township calls the nation's largest collection of authentic Victorian architecture, with closely spaced houses and restored hotel buildings from the late 1800s and early 1900s on its original small lots, and Main Avenue as its shopping street. Shark River Hills, known locally as the Hills, sits on a hilly peninsula with about 3.5 miles of waterfront, and Seaview Island and the Concourse are a peninsula-and-island neighborhood on the river where many houses have decks facing the water. Mid-Town lies between Asbury Avenue and Corlies Avenue (Route 33) next to the Asbury Park border.
The township is also a regional medical center: Jersey Shore University Medical Center, the area's trauma center, is in Neptune. Small neighborhood parks such as Bradley Park, Sunshine Village Park and Division Street Park have fitness stations and trails. Public schools are run by Neptune Township Schools from pre-K through grade 12.
The township calls itself a crossroads of the Jersey Shore. The Garden State Parkway serves it at Exits 100 and 102, and state Routes 18, 33, 35, 66 and 71 all run within its borders; Route 66 carries much of the commercial traffic on the west side, and Route 71 runs along the edge of Ocean Grove. Interstate 195 begins just southwest in Wall Township, and Route 33 leads west toward the New Jersey Turnpike.
NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line stops at the Bradley Beach station, which the township lists as the Bradley Beach/Neptune station, and at Asbury Park just to the north. The line runs north toward Newark Penn Station, Secaucus Junction and New York Penn Station. NJ Transit local buses including the 830, 832 and 836 serve the area, and route 317 runs to Philadelphia.
Ocean Grove's compact grid and boardwalk are easy to cover on foot, and the Shark River waterfront is reached by boat from the marinas along the river.
Ocean Grove is the main draw for visitors: its historic district can be explored on foot along Main Avenue, Ocean Pathway and the lake edges, and the boardwalk and Boardwalk Pavilion run along the beach. The 1894 Great Auditorium, a barrel-vaulted wooden hall with colored-glass entrances and a large pipe organ installed in 1908, faces Ocean Pathway, and from May to September a cluster of canvas-fronted tents attached to small wooden sheds is set up around it. The Beersheba well, the area's first artesian well, still stands under its 1881 gazebo. A former high school building now houses the Jersey Shore Arts Center, and an arts and crafts festival is held in Ocean Grove each October.
Shark River Park, the county's first park, covers 1,006 acres along the Shark River in Neptune, Wall and Tinton Falls, with about 7.5 miles of trails through wetlands and pine and oak forest, a playground, picnic areas, a reservable shelter, pond and river fishing with seasonal trout stocking, and cross-country skiing and ice skating in winter.
Along the river, the Shark River Hills area has the Shark River Golf Course, a marina and yacht club, and spots for fishing, crabbing, boating and birding, along with a nature trail with historic and environmental stops. The township recreation department runs sports programs and an annual Neptune Day.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)33 miles away |
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| Nearest city of 250,000+ | New York, NY32 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Neptune; 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.
Neptune had 28,061 residents in the 2020 census, up 1% since 2000.
It’s the 88th 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 84°F in summer, and winter lows average 25°F. About 52.4 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Long Branch-Oakhurst, 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).
1,181 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Neptune’s ZIP codes.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 150 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 398 |
| Dentists | 31 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 347 |
| Mental health providers | 164 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 77 |
| Optometrists | 4 |
| Chiropractors | 10 |
| Pharmacies | 20 |
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 (3 nearby)
Grocery stores (3 nearby)
Pharmacies (2 nearby)
Libraries (1 nearby)
Museums (9 nearby)
Theaters and performance venues
Counts are within about 2 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.
Notable people born here
Source: Wikidata (wikidata.org), the free knowledge base; people are listed by place of birth.
Public schools here are run by Neptune Township School District, Neptune City School District, College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School Distr and others. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
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| Gables Elementary SchoolNeptune | Pre-K–5 | 284 | Public | 1.4 mi |
| Green Grove Elementary SchoolNeptune | Pre-K–5 | 296 | Public | 1.1 mi |
| Midtown Community Elementary SchoolNeptune | Pre-K–5 | 437 | Public | 2.7 mi |
| Shark River Hills Elementary SchoolNeptune | Pre-K–5 | 244 | Public | 1.1 mi |
| Summerfield Elementary SchoolNeptune | Pre-K–5 | 389 | Public | 0.2 mi |
| Woodrow WilsonNeptune City | Pre-K–8 | 264 | Public | 1.6 mi |
| College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School DistrictNeptune | K–12 | 522 | Charter | 0.6 mi |
| Neptune Middle SchoolNeptune | 6–8 | 595 | Public | 1.5 mi |
| Monmouth County Academy of Allied Health and ScienceNeptune | 9–12 | 300 | Career and Technical | 1.6 mi |
| Neptune High SchoolNeptune | 9–12 | 1,129 | Public | 1.7 mi |
| School | Grades | Students | Affiliation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montessori Academy of New JerseyNeptune | Pre-K–K | 33 | Nonsectarian | 1.5 mi |
| Childrens Center of Monmouth CountyNeptune | 3–8 | 148 | Nonsectarian | 1.6 mi |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, NCES: Common Core of Data (2024-2025) for public schools; Private School Universe Survey (2023-2024) for private schools. Listed by address; we don’t rate schools.
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Shares ZIP codes with Tinton Falls, Neptune City and Wall.
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