High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ocean Township is a Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 6,450. Ocean Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 13, 1876, from portions of both Lacey Township and Union Township (now Barnegat Township. Portions of the township were taken to create Long Beach Township (March 23, 1899) and Island Beach (June 23, 1933).