Ocean County · New Jersey
Toms River
Toms River is Ocean County’s daily anchor — Community Medical Center, downtown Washington Street, and the Hooper / Route 37 shopping loop — inland and composed, with shore days optional rather than defining.
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About this town
Ocean County hub — downtown, Route 37 errands, and Community Medical Center.
Toms River is the county seat and everyday hub: downtown Washington Street, Route 37 shopping and pharmacy runs, and Community Medical Center on Highway 37 West. Hold it when you want a real downtown plus hospital and errands in one municipal story, with age-restricted ranch communities in and around the township (including Silverton).
Toms River is the county seat you use for downtown, Route 37 errands, and Community Medical Center. It shares Ocean County shopping and doctors with Berkeley Township, including homes where you own the house and the land.
Why this town
Why consider it
Toms River is the Ocean County hub town — downtown Washington Street, Route 37 shopping and pharmacy runs, and Community Medical Center on Highway 37 West. Hold it when you want a real downtown plus hospital and errands in one municipal story, with age-restricted ranch communities in and around the township (including Silverton).
Honest tradeoffs
Some 55+ pockets here are thinner on Active homes in your monthly target than Berkeley’s Holiday City / Silver Ridge corridor. Downtown and Route 37 are busier than inland pine communities. Tax and insurance still need house-by-house honesty.
Fit cues
- Homes in a 55+ community: Mixed — Greenbriar Woodlands and Holiday City Silverton in play; Berkeley corridor usually deeper for ranch stock
- Doctors and errands: Community Medical Center, and groceries and a pharmacy on Route 37 and Hooper Avenue
- Drives to family: Ocean County — longer to Verona / Kearny than northern New Jersey
- Shore or inland: Inland county seat with shore access by drive — not Boardwalk living
Homes
Homes within your monthly target
Holiday City and Silver Ridge homes on the shared Ocean County list, where you own the house and the land. The tax town is often Berkeley Township even when the mailing address says Toms River. Each card keeps the community name.
Shopping
Everyday errands
Aldi Hooper
1161 Hooper Ave, Toms River, NJ 08753
A grocery on Hooper Avenue in Toms River.
Aldi Route 37 West
740 Route 37 W, Toms River, NJ 08755
A grocery on Route 37 West in Toms River.
BJ's Wholesale Club
941 Route 37 W, Toms River, NJ 08755
Membership wholesale near Walmart
ShopRite Hooper
1255 Hooper Ave, Toms River, NJ 08753
Another ShopRite, on Hooper Avenue.
ShopRite of Route 37
2 Route 37 W, Toms River, NJ 08753
The grocery to use first from Holiday City and Silver Ridge, about 8 to 12 minutes away.
Stop & Shop Route 37 East
353 Route 37 E, Toms River, NJ 08753
A grocery on Route 37 East.
Walmart Supercenter #1844
950 Route 37 W, Toms River, NJ 08755
The closest grocery for Berkeley Township and Silver Ridge.
CVS #356 Bananier
51 Bananier Dr, Toms River, NJ 08757
The nearest pharmacy for Holiday City and Silver Ridge, about 5 to 9 minutes away.
Health Care
Medical facilities nearby
Community Medical Center (CMC TR)
99 Highway 37 West, Toms River, NJ 08755
RWJBarnabas Health
Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus
600 River Avenue, Lakewood, NJ 08701
RWJBarnabas Health
Ocean University Medical Center
425 Jack Martin Blvd, Brick, NJ 08724
Hackensack Meridian Health
Immediate Care Medical Walk-In of Brick
56 Chambers Bridge Road, Brick, NJ 08723
Atlantic Health
Immediate Care Medical Walk-In of Toms River
1 Route 37 West, Toms River, NJ 08753
Atlantic Health
CMC Internal Medicine Faculty Practice
67 Route 37 West, Riverwood Plaza Bldg 1 Fl 3, Toms River, NJ 08755
RWJBarnabas Health
We show the place and the drive. Your Medicare plan decides which doctors you can use.
Things to do
Green quiet & a day out
Downtown
A Main Street hour
Downtown Toms River
Washington St / Main St, Toms River, NJ 08753
Walkable Main Street hour
Dining