Port-au-peck is a local name for the northern part of the borough of Oceanport

Oceanport, New Jersey

Oceanport is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 5,832.Oceanport was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 6, 1920, from portions of Eatontown Township , based on the results of a...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

. It is not a CDP

Census-designated place

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. It is merely just a local name.

Geography

Port-au-peck is approximately half of Oceanport (3.9 sq mi.) It is the area north-north-east of the New Jersey Transit

New Jersey Transit

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 Monmouth Park line. It forms a peninsula

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....

 jutting into the Shrewsbury River

Shrewsbury River

The Shrewsbury River is a short stream and navigable estuary, approximately 8 mi long, in central New Jersey in the United States....

 and is formed in the shape of a mitten or to some a fox.

Demography

While no specific data is taken for Port-au-peck (as it is not census recognized) the neighborhood would be considered by most to be middle class

Middle class

The middle class is any class of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy. In Weberian socio-economic terms, the middle class is the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the working class and upper class....

 to upper-middle class and is mostly, almost 100% white. Port-au-peck is higher income and more residential than the Eatontown

Eatontown, New Jersey

Eatontown is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 12,709.What is now Eatontown was originally incorporated as Eatontown Township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 4, 1873, from portions of Ocean Township and...

side of Oceanport proper.

ZIP Code

Port-au-peck uses the same ZIP Code (07757) as Oceanport. The town of Oceanport has only one post office and because of this Port-au-peck has been somewhat forgotten in the past years. Few residents in Oceanport use Port-au-peck as a mailing address.

External links

• Port-au-Peck Chemical Hose Company No. 1