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Bay Head is a small borough on the Barnegat Peninsula in northern Ocean County, with Barnegat Bay harbor on its west side and the Atlantic Ocean on its east.

Bay Head was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on June 15, 1886, from portions of Brick Township, based on the results of a referendum held three days earlier.

The community was developed in the 1870s by the Bayhead Land Company, incorporated on September 6, 1879; the founders intended the one-word name 'Bayhead,' but a railroad station sign reading 'Bay Head' in the 1880s made the two-word name stick.

The 2020 United States census counted just 930 year-round residents in Bay Head, down from 968 in 2010 and 1,238 in 2000.

The 2010 census counted 459 occupied homes in the borough, and its housing stock is prized: more than 550 historically significant structures stand within its 0.7 square miles, making Bay Head one of the largest historic districts in New Jersey.

The Bay Head Yacht Club was established on September 8, 1888, to promote yachting and rowing on Barnegat Bay, and in 1914 the club became a founding member of the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association.

The borough's beaches are managed by the nonprofit Bay Head Improvement Association, founded in 1898, which provides lifeguards and beach patrols.

Bay Head's first post office was established in the summer of 1882, with Julius Foster as its first postmaster.

Local students attend Bay Head Elementary School for kindergarten through eighth grade, then Point Pleasant Beach High School for grades nine through twelve under a sending/receiving relationship shared with Lavallette and Mantoloking.