The 2020 US Census figures are in and they show that Lakewood’s population growth has exploded, with 135,158 people calling the township home.
The 2010 Census found that there were 92,843 residents in the township, meaning Lakewood’s population grew by a stunning 45.5% in just 10 years, possibly the highest population percentage growth increase in the country.
Lakewood is now the 5th-largest city in New Jersey – up from #7 in 2010 – and is on track to become the 3rd largest city by 2030.
Is 135k the number of people? Or is it just the number of cars by the corner of New Hampshire and Pine?
….and where are we putting all these people? and the people to come until 2030??
We need more cops…and pay them double!
Ps: Lakewood isnt a city. The govt would need to change to get that delineation…that will never happen..So does that make us the most populous township in nj?
The correct term is municipality.
Including the illegal?
i dont believe the undocumented were properly counted.
@Yankiv I think we actually overperformed due to the illegals who were willing to respond after a citizenship question was not allowed.
Mabrouck for Lakewood.
Lakewood should ban new residential building permits until it fixes the roads and has enough schools for our children.
Growth that is too fast and lacks planning diminishes Lakewood residents’ quality of life. When people are literally pulling out in front of other cars in desperation and when there are high school girls without schools a couple weeks away from school opening — it’s time to STOP and plan. The 9 needs to be widened. Left turn arrows need to be installed at multiple lights.
If we don’t do something soon our time on the road will increase exponentially.
Thanx, Esther – Now that you’re living comfortably in your house, in Lakewood, enjoying all the amenities, and the ease with which you go shopping and shul etc…NOW you want them to stop building.
How generous of you.
To Esther B
High school girls being out is because there is nobody in charge of funding new schools . Even if we stopped all new building, there still would not be enough high schools if the community doesn’t feel responsible for the funding and just waits till some private random person decides to be crazy and undertake the entire financial responsibility then we will always gave a shortage
@RS
Where? Wherever there is still a tree, a blade of grass, or a place to walk.
After that, a house or two could be erected in every development’s playground, and the lake could be lined with townhouses, to try looking like Venice, or Amsterdam.
When those options will be done with, multiple stories could be added to existing homes, abutting the ones across the street for rainproof tunnels, just as was done in the European ghettos.
As for infrastructure and ability to drive, who cares, as long as everyone is happily living on his neighbors’ heads. Kids don’t need a space to play at; they should be learning. Driving should be limited only for getting groceries for shabbos, and for speeding to mincha. Schools also don’t matter. In truth, nothing really matters, as long as someone could keep on building, and bringing Brooklyn to Lakewood, so that those who are running away from the former will feel right at home.
As for the antisemites in Howell and Jackson, who do not want their towns to replicate Lakewood, stick it to them. You are entitled!
I can proudly say I remember when there were trees in Lakewood