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Avenel

Avenel is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within , in , in the U.S. state of .
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  • Type: Suburb with 16,900 residents
  • Description: town in New Jersey, United States
  • Also known as: “Avenel, New Jersey” and “Demarest on the Hill”
  • Postal code: 07001

Places of Interest

Highlights include Avenel station and East Jersey State Prison.

Railway station
Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Avenel is an active commuter railroad station in the Avenel section of , . Servicing trains of NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, the station serves trains going to and to New York Penn Station.

Prison
Photo: Jackie Finn-Irwin, CC BY 2.0.
is a maximum security prison operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections in Avenel, , . It was established in 1896 as Rahway State Prison, and was the first reformatory in New Jersey, officially opening in 1901.

Prison
The is a secure correctional facility operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Its purpose is to provide treatment and incarceration for certain criteria meeting repetitive and compulsive male sex offenders who have been sentenced under the New Jersey Sex Offender Act.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Edgars and Port Reading.

Hamlet
or Edgar is an unincorporated community located within in , in the U.S. state of . It approximately includes the area around over to Rahway Avenue, south of the Port Reading Railroad.

Suburb
is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , , United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,921.

Hamlet
is a township in . According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total land area of including 23.213 square miles.

Avenel

Latitude
40.5765° or 40° 34′ 35″ north
Longitude
-74.27498° or 74° 16′ 30″ west
Population
16,900
Elevation
85 feet (26 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US AVE
Open location code
87G7HPGG+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9879366684
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
5095325
Wiki­data ID
Q509670
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Avenel” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أفينيل”
  • Asturian: “Avenel”
  • Catalan: “Avenel”
  • Cebuano: “Avenel”
  • Chinese: “Avenel”
  • Chinese: “阿弗內爾”
  • Dutch: “Avenel”
  • French: “Avenel”
  • German: “Avenel”
  • Gilaki: “اوینل (نيۊجرسي)”
  • Gilaki: “اوینل”
  • Italian: “Avenel”
  • Kazakh: “Эйвнэл”
  • Kirghiz: “Эйвнэл”
  • Ladin: “Avenel”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Avenel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Avenel”
  • Persian: “اونول نیوجرسی”
  • Polish: “Avenel”
  • Portuguese: “Avenel”
  • Serbian: “Avenel, New Jersey”
  • Serbian: “Avenel”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Avenel, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Avenel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اونول نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Avenel (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Avenel”
  • Swedish: “Avenel, New Jersey”
  • Swedish: “Avenel”
  • Tatar: “Авенел”
  • Ukrainian: “Авенел”
  • Uzbek: “Avenel”
  • Volapük: “Avenel”

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