Shrewsbury is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Centrally located in the Jersey Shore region in the New York Metropolitan area, the borough is a historic bedroom community of New York City. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough’s population was 4,184, an growth of 375 (+9.8%) from the 2010 census improve of 3,809, which in slope reflected an deposit of 219 (+6.1%) from the 3,590 counted in the 2000 census.

Shrewsbury was formed as a borough by an achievement of the New Jersey Legislature upon March 22, 1926, from portions of Shrewsbury Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 11, 1926. The borough’s reveal comes from Shrewsbury, England.

Shrewsbury was portion of the Navesink Patent or Monmouth Tract approved soon after the inauguration of East Jersey in 1665. The tract included Shrewsbury, along in imitation of the extra historic towns of Freehold in western Monmouth County and Middletown in northern Monmouth County.

When it was formed in 1693, Shrewsbury covered an area of just about 1,000 square miles (2,600 km), extending to the north to the Navesink River, south to include whatever of present-day Ocean County, east to the Atlantic Ocean and west to the present-day be heavy to of Monmouth County. It retained its size and scope until 1750, when various alternating municipalities began to crack off from it. The first of those instinctive Stafford Township, which was formed in 1750 and ejection much of modern-day Ocean County. The Parker Homestead, one of the oldest structures in the state, was built by to come settlers to the region. Many of the forward settlers of the region originated from Long Island, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.