Point Pleasant is a Borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 19,306. The United States Census Bureau's 2006 population estimate for Point Pleasant was 19,882. Point Pleasant is located at 40° 04' 47"N 074° 04' 14"W / 40.079642, -74.070419.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 4.2 square miles, of which, 3.5 square miles is land and 0.6 square miles (15.14%) is water.
Point Pleasant was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 21, 1920, from portions of Brick Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 19, 1920. The borough was reincorporated on March 12, 1928.
The town is home to the Point Pleasant Canal, completed in 1925, at the northern end of the Intracoastal Waterway. The two lift bridges over the canal, at Route 88 and Bridge Avenue, can be opened as many as 300 times per day during the summer to allow boats to pass underneath as marine traffic has the right of way.