SJM_Top Towns_final_0524 . qxp_SJM 5 / 29 / 24 3 : 13 PM Page 4 Moorestown By The Numbers : BIG TOWNS Average Average Total Crime Rate % Municipality Residential Property ( per 1,000 ( in alphabetical order ) Property Value Taxes residents ) Bordentown Twp . 6.7 $ 242,880 $ 7,513 Y Burlington Twp . $ 235,100 $ 6,791 14.2 T Cinnaminson N22.9 $ 235,609 $ 8,191 U Delran 11.7 $ 210,603 $ 7,949 O Evesham $ 272,616 $ 8,224 8.5 C Florence $ 222,177 $ 5,339 4.5 Lumberton $ 301,304 $ 7,523 16.2 N MapleShade $ 161,135 $ 5,938 24.4 O Medford $ 329,342 $ 10,924 T9.1 GMoorestown $ 460,778 $ 12,330 7.9 N Mount Holly $ 174,352 $ 5,460 15.5 I MainStreet is replete with many pre - Mount LLaurel $ 238,196 $ 6,684 13.7 Revolutionand Victorian era homes built R Pemberton $ 165,189 $ 4,750 16.2 U between1700 and the early 1900s . Southampton $ 192,823 $ 6,125 9.1 B Willingboro $ 160,357 $ 6,870 8.4 n The village of Moorestown was es - Bellmawr $ 167,839 $ 6,337 16.6 tablished in 1682 , but it wasn’t until Cherry Hill $ 227,281 $ 8,857 Y23.1 March11 , 1922 , that it was incorporated T Collingswood $ 232,569 $ 8,888 26.1 N byan act of the New Jersey State Gloucester City $ 108,921 $ 5,450 25.5 U Legislature . Gloucester Twp . $ 188,856 $ 7,533 13.1 O Haddon Twp . $ 232,657 $ 8,891 20.8 C n After previously being known as Haddonfield $ 522,966 $ 16,667 18.2 N DelawareTownship , Cherry Hill was Lindenwold $ 111,261 $ 5,310 30.5 E Pennsauken $ 142,157 $ 5,784 28.7 named after a farm that formerly occu - D Pine Hill $ 117,890 $ 6,042 19.1 piedthe site where the Cherry Hill Inn M Voorhees $ 262,541 $ 11,085 9.6 was built . That site is now where the A Waterford $ 175,127 $ 7,524 C7.5 movietheater is located on Route 38 . Winslow Twp . $ 176,985 $ 6,249 10.6 n Mount Laurel’s first post office was Deptford $ 182,807 $ 5,973 35 established in 1849 inside a general store , Franklin Twp . $ 188,310 $ 6,710 R9.4 E which also housed the area’s first lending Glassboro $ 191,806 $ 6,711 15.6 Y T library . Harrison Twp . $ 344,844 $ 10,814 7 T S E Mantua $ 312,660 $ 7,705 N12.6 C n U Voorhees is named after Foster Mc - Monroe $ 206,215 $ 7,495 11.8 U O Washington Twp . $ 232,514 $ 7,948 9.8 GowanVoorhees , a former governor of O C West Deptford $ 200,904 $ 6,924 12.4 the statewho granted the petition for the L Woodbury $ 152,799 $ 7,089 37.5 areato become its own township in G Woolwich $ 320,835 $ 10,583 3.8 March of 1899 . n Cinnaminson takes its name from the Lenni - Lenape Tribe who first inhab - ited the area and named their hunting grounds Cinnaminson , which translates to “ sweetwater . ” n The name Delran is actually a combi - nation of the Delaware River and Ranco - cas Creek , both of which are significant to the township’s location . Mount Holly SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 21 issue 2 SouthJerseyMagazine.com | 45