As of the 2000 United States Census[REF] there were 2,244 people, 1,043 households, and 535 families residing in the borough.
As of the 2000 Census, 36.5% of Avon-by-the-Sea residents were of Irish ancestry, the third-highest percentage of any municipality in the United States, and second-highest in New Jersey, among all places with more than 1,000 residents identifying their ancestry [REF].