Menlo Park Terrace is an

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and

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(CDP) in Woodbridge Township,

Middlesex County, New Jersey Middlesex County is a County (United States), county located in the North Jersey, north-Central Jersey, central part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, extending inland from the Raritan River, Raritan Valley region to the northern portion of the ...

, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,806.

Geography

The community is in northeastern Middlesex County, in the western part of Woodbridge Township. It is bordered to the north and east by Iselin and to the south by Fords, both within Woodbridge Township, and to the west by the neighborhood of Menlo Park within Edison Township. It is located on the northwest side of U.S. Route 1, between

Menlo Park Mall Menlo Park Mall is a two-level Super-regional mall, super regional shopping mall, located on U.S. Route 1 in New Jersey, U.S. Route 1 and Parsonage Road in Edison, New Jersey. The mall has a gross leasable area of Garden State Parkway The Garden State Parkway (GSP) is a Controlled-access highway, controlled-access toll road that stretches the north–south length of eastern New Jersey from the state's southernmost tip near Cape May, New Jersey, Cape May north to the New York ...

. US 1 leads southwest to

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, the Middlesex

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, and northeast to Newark. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Menlo Park Terrace CDP has an area of , all land. The community is within the watershed of the South Branch of the

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Demographics

Menlo Park Terrace was first listed as a

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in the 2020 U.S. Census. As of 2020, the population was 2,806.

References

{{Middlesex County, New Jersey Neighborhoods in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey Census-designated places in Middlesex County, New Jersey Census-designated places in New Jersey Unincorporated communities in Middlesex County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in New Jersey

Geography

Demographics

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