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SJM_Top Towns_final_0524 . qxp_SJM 5 / 29 / 24 3 : 13 PM Page 2 M O O R E S T O W N TOP 25 TOWNS # 1 Moorestown 2 . Haddonfield 3 . Harrison Township Percheron Park 4 . Woolwich 5 . Voorhees 6 . Medford 7 . Evesham 8 . Bordentown Township 9 . Mount Laurel Strawbridge Lake Park Moorestown Mall Full Throttle Field 10 . Mantua 11 . Cherry Hill 12 . Washington Township HETHER YOU’VE CALLED SOUTH JERSEY HOME FOR DECADES OR ARE NEW TO THE AREA , THERE’S NO DENYING 13 . Delran W THE ALLURE AND CHARM OF LIFE IN THE REGION . 14 . Lumberton The proximity to major cities and the per 1,000 residents and high school per - 15 . Haddon Township Shore makes this an ideal spot to plant formancenumbers consisting of average roots , but the area truly offers everything SATscores , graduation rates and more . 16 . Burlington Township you could want from top - notch schools , This year , Moorestown edged out the tremendous health care providers , an others to find itself at the top of the list , 17 . Southampton ever - evolving food scene and much more . andfor good reason : High property values , 18 . Cinnaminson It’sno wonder why so many of us love the stellarschools and a close - knit community lives we live here . where civic pride runs deep are just a few 19 . Florence Our annual Top Towns spotlight cele - ofthe reasons why it’s so highly regarded . 20 . Monroe bratesour local communities and recog - That’snot to say the rest of the bunch nizes them for collectively improving the areany less impressive . As our area con - 21 . West Deptford quality of life in this wonderful place we tinuesto grow , our communities are trans - call home . Our rankings were formulated forming to meet modern demands , and 22 . Franklin Township using data from the New Jersey State innovativethinking has the area well - pre - 23 . Mount Holly Police , the New Jersey Department of Ed - paredfor a bright future . There’s something ucation and the state’s Division of tolove about each and every one of Local these 24 . Waterford Government Services . Using a weighted towns , and we celebrate them all for how formula , we combined average property they contribute to making South Jersey 25 . Collingswood values and taxes , crime incidents reported theperfect place to live , work and play . SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 21 issue 2 SouthJerseyMagazine.com | 43
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SJM_Top Towns_final_0524 . qxp_SJM 5 / 29 / 24 3 : 13 PM Page 3 Mount Laurel TOP 10 TOWNS by County Burlington County 1 . Moorestown 2 . Medford 3 . Evesham 4 . Bordentown Township 5 . Mount Laurel 6 . Delran 7 . Lumberton 8 . Burlington Township 9 . Southampton 10 . Cinnaminson Camden County 1 . Haddonfield 2 . Voorhees 3 . Cherry Hill 4 . Haddon Township 5 . Waterford Fun facts 6 . Collingswood DID YOU from across 7 . Gloucester Township 8 . Bellmawr South KNOW 9 . Winslow Township Jersey 10 . Pine Hill ? Gloucester n n Inthemid - to - late1600s , Welsh and OnFeb . 4 , 1847 , Medford Township County English Quakers crossed the Delaware River was officially established after previously from Pennsylvania in search of farmland beingknown as Upper Evesham . The town - 1 . Harrison Township and religious freedom . They would settle in shipheld its first meeting a little over a 2 . Woolwich thearea that would later become Evesham month later . 3 . Mantua Township . 4 . Washington Township n OnJuly12 , 1928 , Mexican aviator 5 . Monroe n Awealthybusinessman from London CaptainEmilio Carranza Rodriguez crashed 6 . West Deptford namedJohn Haddon purchased land in intothe Pine Barrens . There is a memorial 7 . Franklin Township “ WestJersey ” in 1668 . In 1701 , he sent his located in Wharton State Forest at the scene daughter Elizabeth to the area to occupy the ofthe crash . 8 . Glassboro land he purchased , and she named the area 9 . Woodbury n Haddonfield in his honor . In Harrison Township , Mullica Hill’s 10 . Deptford SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 21 issue 2 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 44 |