#1Plumsted Township
Ocean County8,066 in 2020·9,991 in 2025·+1,925 people
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Fastest-growing towns in New Jersey
Plumsted Township has grown fastest of New Jersey’s 465 towns of 2,500+: up 23.9% from 8,066 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 9,991 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +2.0%; 46 of the 465 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+23.9%
#2Garwood
Union County4,449 in 2020·5,390 in 2025·+941 people
#3Montvale
Bergen County8,444 in 2020·10,113 in 2025·+1,669 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in New Jersey?
Plumsted Township (Ocean County): it grew 23.9%, from 8,066 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 9,991 in July 2025. Garwood (+21.2%) and Montvale (+19.8%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (465 in New Jersey). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the New Jersey page.
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