Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Mantoloking, NJ

Mantoloking is a small coastal borough in Ocean County, set on the Barnegat Peninsula, the narrow barrier island that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.

The borough was incorporated on April 10, 1911, from portions of Brick Township.

The name Mantoloking first appeared in 1881 and was coined by one of the borough's founders, Frederick W. Downer, who believed the site had been the home of the Manta sub-tribe of the Lenni Lenape.

The 2020 census counted just 331 year-round residents in Mantoloking, up from 296 in 2010, while its estimated summer population swells to about 5,000.

The 2010 census counted those 296 residents in only 162 households, with a median age of 64.4 years, reflecting the borough's heavily seasonal, retirement-aged character.

As of the 2000 census, Mantoloking was the highest-income community in New Jersey, with a per capita money income of $114,017.

Hurricane Sandy devastated Mantoloking on October 29, 2012, damaging about 90 percent of its properties and cutting a breach through the barrier island near Herbert Street that joined Barnegat Bay directly to the Atlantic Ocean.

More than 50 Mantoloking homes required demolition after Sandy, nearly 10 percent of all the housing units in the borough.

Mantoloking is a dry town where the sale of alcohol is prohibited by law.

Together with Bay Head to its north, Mantoloking is considered part of the Jersey Shore's "Gold Coast," and some of its old summer cottages were designed by famed architect Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White.