SJM_TopTowns_0519V2FINAL_SJM 4 / 30 / 19 5 : 28 PM Page 2 TOP25 O verall 1 Moorestown 2 Haddonfield 3 Medford 4 Woolwich 5 Harrison Township 6 Voorhees 7 Marlton 8 Downtown Cinnaminson Moorestown 9 Mount Laurel 10 Cherry Hill NE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES SOUTH JERSEY 11 SUCH A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE are the in - Mantua dividual communities , each offering their own O 12 Southampton bit of charm that collectively help make the area truly 13 one of a kind . From sprawling parcels of suburbia to Bordentown close - knit neighborhoods that feel like they were 14 Washington Township ripped right from a Rockwell painting , there’s no deny - 15 ing there’s a certain allure to this place we call home . Burlington Township 16 10,000 ( big towns ) and smaller than To help determine this year’s Top Lumberton 10,000 ( small towns ) . Towns rankings , we spent time factor - 17 Moorestown took the No . 1 spot for ing in various aspects of what makes West Deptford the first time since 2016 and with good each town stand out from the pack . 18 reason . A renowned educational sys - We used data compiled from the New Delran tem , high property values and a desir - Jersey State Police , the New Jersey De - 19 able quality of life make the town one partment of Education and the state’s Monroe of the best places to live not only in Division of Local Government Ser - 20 South Jersey , but across the country . vices . Using a weighted formula , we Haddon Township Certainly , the rest of the towns on combined average property values 21 the list could make their own argu - and taxes , crime incidents reported Franklin Township ment to be atop the list , and the data per 1,000 residents and high school 22 supports that , with many of them performance numbers ( consisting of Waterford being separated by only a few percent - average SAT scores , high school grad - 23 age points . It’s just further evidence as uation rates and more ) . We then broke Florence to why we are so lucky to be able to the rankings down into two cate - 24 live , work and play in South Jersey . gories : a population of more than Winslow 25 Gloucester Township SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 16 issue 2 SouthJerseyMagazine.com | 57