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Middletown Township, New Jersey

Middletown Township, New Jersey
Township
Township of Middletown
Christ Episcopal Church
Christ Episcopal Church
Official seal of Middletown Township, New Jersey
Seal
Motto: The Biggest Small Town in New Jersey
Map of Middletown Township in Monmouth County. Inset (left): Monmouth County highlighted within New Jersey.
Map of Middletown Township in Monmouth County. Inset (left): Monmouth County highlighted within New Jersey.
Census Bureau map of Middletown Township, New Jersey
Census Bureau map of Middletown Township, New Jersey
Coordinates: 40°24′26″N 74°04′16″W / 40.407306°N 74.071121°W / 40.407306; -74.071121Coordinates: 40°24′26″N 74°04′16″W / 40.407306°N 74.071121°W / 40.407306; -74.071121
Country  United States
State  New Jersey
County Monmouth
Formed October 31, 1693
Incorporated February 21, 1798
Government
 • Type Special Charter
 • Body Township Committee
 • Mayor Gerard P. Scharfenberger (R, term ends December 31, 2017)
 • Administrator Anthony P. Mercantante
 • Clerk Heidi R. Brunt
Area
 • Total 58.735 sq mi (152.122 km2)
 • Land 40.989 sq mi (106.160 km2)
 • Water 17.746 sq mi (45.962 km2)  30.21%
Area rank 23rd of 566 in state
2nd of 53 in county
Elevation 98 ft (30 m)
Population (2010 Census)
 • Total 66,522
 • Estimate (2015) 66,024
 • Rank 16th of 566 in state
1st of 53 in county
 • Density 1,622.9/sq mi (626.6/km2)
 • Density rank 321st of 566 in state
40th of 53 in county
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) Eastern (EDT) (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 07748 - Middletown
07701 - Red Bank
07716 - Atlantic Highlands
07718 - Belford
07732 - Highlands
07733 - Holmdel
07737 - Leonardo
07738 - Lincroft
07752 - Navesink
07758 - Port Monmouth
07760 - Locust
Area code(s) 732 and 908
FIPS code 3402545990
GNIS feature ID 0882604
Website www.middletownnj.org

Middletown Township is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a total population of 66,522, making it the state's 16th largest municipality, having seen an increase of 195 residents (0.3%) from its population of 66,327 in the 2000 Census, when it was the state's 17th most populous municipality, which had in turn declined by 1,856 (-2.7%) from the 68,183 counted in the 1990 Census. Middletown is one of the oldest sites of European settlement in New Jersey.

Due to its affluence, low crime, access to cultural activities, public school system, and central commuting location, Middletown was ranked in 2006, 2008, and 2010, and 2014 Top 100 in CNNMoney.com's Best Places to Live.Time magazine listed Middletown on its list of "Best Places to Live 2014".

In 2016, SafeWise named Middletown Township as the fifth-safest city in America to raise a child; the township was the highest ranked of the 12 communities in New Jersey included on the list.

Small communities of the Lenape Navesink tribe were common throughout the area when the first known European landing in what would become Middletown Township occurred in 1609. Sea captain and explorer Henry Hudson, in search of the mythical Northwest Passage in the service of the Dutch West India Company, anchored along the shores of Sandy Hook Bay in 1609, describing the area "a very good land to fall in with and a pleasant land to see." While a patroonship was granted by the company in 1651 the land wasn't officially settled. Today's Shoal Harbor Museum and Old Spy House includes portions of a house constructed by Thomas Whitlock, one of the area's first European settlers (and a Reformed Baptist at Middletown) who arrived here as early as 1664, before the English conquest of New Netherland began in 1665 as part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Long-standing tradition had Penelope Stout, one of the first settlers, hiding in a tree from hostile Native Americans.


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