Beach Haven West is an unincorporated community and census-designated place constituting a part of the Jersey Shore community of Stafford Township, in southern Ocean County, within the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the CDP's population was 4,143, an increase of 247 from the 3,896 recorded at the 2010 census, which in turn had reflected a decrease of 548 from the 4,444 counted in the 2000 census.