1920 Census
Tuckerton Beacon 5 Feb 1920: WINTER CENSUS WILL SHOW UP SHORE TOWNS VERY POORLY: The shore towns from Atlantic Highlands to Cape May are being worried about the 1920 census. Taken in the month of January, when many of the trades people are away, none of the summer folks are on the coast, and many of the other residents are in Florida or California, or in nearby cities, the shore towns will make a poor showing indeed. To add to the difficulty, thousands of workingmen on the Jersey shore have left home and taken their families with them, to get work in other places for the winter, intending to return in the spring. Asbury Park was pretty well scared at the first reports from the census, and Mayor Hettrick has appealed to citizens to tell the census takers all about the absent residents. Ocean County towns find themselves in the same situation. In fact so far there are some places in Ocean County where no enumerator has been secured.