Moorestown

As of the 2010 U.S. census, the township's population was 20,726, reflecting an increase of 1,709 (+9.0%) from the 19,017 counted in the 2000 census. The township is named for a Thomas Moore who settled in the area in 1722 and constructed a hotel though other sources attribute the name to poet Thomas Moore. In 2005, Moorestown was ranked number one in Money magazine's list of the 100 best places to live in America. In 2011, voters repealed the liquor ban; however, liquor sales in the township will be restricted to the Moorestown Mall. In May 1686, three years after the founding of Philadelphia, John Rodman bought 500 acres (2.0 km²) on the west side of Chester Township. The growing area around the eastern spring was known as the Village of Chestertown. In 1732, Moore purchased 33 acres (130,000 m2) of land on the north side of the King's Highway. The first Society of Friends' Meeting House, built of logs, was erected in 1700. The community at that time probably consisted of a few farmhouses from Stanwick Road to Locust Street. A tavern built in 1745 by John Cox at what is now Main and Schooley streets was taken over in 1778 during the Revolutionary War by Hessian officers retreating from Philadelphia. In 1812, a brick school was built near the intersection of Route 73 and the Kingspass Highway.

History

Main Street (formerly the King's Highway) follows a ridge that had been occupied by the historic Lenni Lenape Native Americans. Two fine springs, one to the west (off Main Street before reaching the Perkins Center for the Arts, just by Roberts Elementary School) drew Native Americans and traders to the area. In May 1686, three years after the founding of Philadelphia, John Rodman bought 500 acres (2.0 km²) on the west side of Chester Township. Thomas Moore and his wife Elizabeth settled here in 1722. A tavern built in 1745 by John Cox at what is now Main and Schooley streets was taken over in 1778 during the Revolutionary War by Hessian officers retreating from Philadelphia. The Coles Hotel, east of the corner of Main and Chester, was a stop on the stagecoach route connecting Camden with Trenton and Philadelphia. A stone schoolhouse was located adjacent to the present Friends Meeting House at the intersection of Chester Avenue and Main Street. The first free Moorestown public school was established in 1873.Vernon Hill's 46,000 square feet (4,300 m2) mansion Villa CollinaItalian for "Hill House" is located in Moorestown. Moorestown's Quaker heritage is discussed in resident and native historian William H. Kingston's book, Mooretown's Third Century: The Quaker Legacy. The name Moorestown gradually replaced Chester informally in the center of town. Finally, Moorestown formerly split off from Chester and became a Township.

Geography

Moorestown-Lenola is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Moorestown, which had a 2010 population of 14,217. The township is located in southwest Burlington County and borders Maple Shade Township, Cinnaminson Township, Delran Township and Willingboro Township. The climate in the Moorestown area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cooler winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Moorestown Township has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The U.S. Census Bureau says the township had a total area of 14.94 square miles (38.70 km²), including 14.73 square miles of land and 0.21 sq miles (0.55 km²) of water (1.43%) in 2010. Moorestown is approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of Philadelphia. It is located on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which runs between Philadelphia and the New Jersey city of Newark. It has a population of about 14,000, according to the 2010 census. The town's ZIP code is 7054, and it has an area of 14.73 sq miles (38.15 km²) The township's population was 14,216 in 2010, and its area of land was 14.70 sq miles. It had a water area of 0.55 sq miles, or 1.43 km².

Demographics

The 2010 U.S. census counted 20,726 people, 7,450 households, and 5,625 families in the township. The racial makeup of the township was 89.19% White, 5.69% African American, 0.16% Native American, 3.27% Asian,0.01% Pacific Islander, and 1.26% from two or more races. The Census Bureau's 2006-2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $108,655. Males had a median income of $100,266 (+/ $4,901) versus $60,057 (-/ $11,139) for females. About 1.4% of families and 2.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.0% of those under age 18 and. 2.8% ofThose age 65 or over. The average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.13. The median age was 41.4 years. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 86.1 males. The per capita income for the Township was $58,458 (+ / $3,172) The median income for males was $74,773 versus $39,148 for females, and $42,154 for males and $44,844 for Females. The township has a population of 19,513, with 7,862 housing units at an average density of 535.1 per square mile (206.6/km²).

Economy

National and international corporations located in Moorestown Township include Destination Maternity, Lockheed Martin, Comcast Cable, Coca-Cola, and the United States Navy.BAYADA Home Health Care, which employs over 18,000 nursing support staff in 250 offices throughout the U.S. and India, has its international headquarters inMoorestown. Otis Elevator has its largest U.S. branch in Mooretown outside of the Otis Elevator headquarters located in Farmington, Connecticut. The United States Army has a base in the town of Moorestown. The town is home to the National Football Hall of Fame, which was established in 1969. The U.N. World Health Organization has a facility in the township. The city's population is around 100,000. The population of Mooretown was 1.2 million in the year 2000. It is expected to reach 1.3 million by the end of the year. It has a population of about 2.5 million. The township has a history of economic growth. It was the site of the World War II Battle of the Bulge, which took place in the early 1950s. It also hosted the opening of the New Jersey Turnpike in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1970s, the town was the location of the opening of the New York City Subway. The New Jersey State Department of Health and Human Services was based in the area. It later moved to New Jersey in the 1980s and the state of New Jersey.

Government

Moorestown's municipal government operates within the Faulkner Act (formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law) under Council-Manager plan E. This form of government is used in 42 municipalities (of the 564) statewide. The Township Council is comprised of five members, who are elected at-large in partisan elections to four-year terms of office on a staggered basis. At a reorganization meeting held in January after each election, the council selects a mayor and a deputy mayor from among its members. The township manager, a full-time professional administrator, is appointed by the council and has the township's executive and administrative authority and responsibility. In the 2014 elections, Stacey Jordan was re-elected to council along with her Republican running mate, Manny Delgado, who made history by becoming Moorestown's first Hispanic Councilman when he took office in January 2015. In November 2016, Republican incumbent Victoria Napolitano won re-election, continuing the Republican Party's 4-to-1 majority. In January 2021, the Township Council selected Quinton Law to fill the seat expiring in December 2022 that had been held by Brian Donnelly until he resigned from office. This is the first time this century that Moorestown has had a fully Democratic Council. In May 2018, the average property tax bill of $11,241, the highest in the county compared to an average of $8,767 statewide. In December 2012, Town Council members John Button, Greg Gallo, Stacey Jordan, Chris Chiacchio, and Mike Testa, along with Councilmembers-elect VictoriaNapolitano and Greg Newcomer, broke ground on the new Town Hall, which was completed in 2014.

Historic district

The Moorestown Historic District is a 47-acre (19 ha) historic district encompassing the community. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1990, for its significance in architecture, commerce, community development, and exploration/settlement from 1720 to 1940. The district includes 351 contributing buildings and four contributing sites. Breidenhart, Moorestown Friends School and Meetinghouse, Smith Mansion, and Town Hall, which were previously listed individually on the NRHP, contribute to the district. It is located in the town of Moorestown, New Hampshire, on the banks of the Rappahannock River and the Susquehanna River. The town was founded in 1720, and the district was established in 1730. It has a population of about 1,000 people, with most of its buildings dating back to the 18th century. It also has a number of historic sites, including the Smith Mansion and the Moorestown Town Hall. The Moorestown Community Center is located on the district's eastern edge, and was built in the 19th century as a home for the town's blacksmiths and carpenters. In the early 20th century, it was converted into a community center. The Town Hall was added in the 1930s, and it is still in use today as a meetinghouse. The community center is located at the center of the district, along with the Town Hall and the Friends School, which was previously listed separately on theNRHP.

Education

The Moorestown Township Public Schools serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. As of the 201819 school year, the district, comprised of six schools, had an enrollment of 3,997 students and 348.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a studentteacher ratio of 11.5:1. In 2015, the school was one of 15 schools in New Jersey, and one of six private schools, recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in the exemplary high performing category by the U.S. Department of Education.Students from Moorestown, and from all of Burlington County, are eligible to attend the Burlington County Institute of Technology, a countywide public school district that serves the vocational and technical education needs of students at the high school and post-secondary level at its campuses in Medford and Westampton. The district also has students who attend Resurrection Regional Catholic Schools in Cherry Hill, which is under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden, and Our Lady of Good Counsel School, which operates under the Trenton Diocese. The school was founded in 1927 and has about 480 students from nursery through eighth grade. It is located behind the church on Prospect Avenue, and is located at East Main Street and Chester Avenue. There is also a private Quaker school, which serves approximately 700 students from preschool through tw 12th grade. There are no public schools in the district; the district is a member of the New Jersey Council on Public Education.

Transportation

As of May 2010, the township had a total of 123.52 miles (198.79 km) of roadways, of which 96.15 miles (154.74 km) were maintained by the municipality. The most prominent highway serving Moorestown is New Jersey State Route 38. County Route 537 also passes through the town. Residents can drive to train stations in the nearby communities of Haddonfield and Lindenwold for access to the PATCO Speedline, and to Palmyra for NJ Transit's River Line service which connects to New York Penn Station through Trenton. NJ Transit Rail Operations still owns the single-track railway in the township, running from Pennsauken Township to Mount Holly, as a rail trail. There is no train station in Moorestown, though the original plan of the PATco line had a station in the town, though it has since been removed. The town is served by the Burlington County Public Transit system, which provides bus service to Philadelphia and other cities in New Jersey. It also provides a bus service between the Moorestown Mall and the Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden, from which there are connecting buses into Philadelphia and a station on the PAT CO Speedline with service between Center City Philadelphia and Lindanwold. The township has a population of 2,816. It is located on the New Jersey Turnpike, which runs from Long Island to New Jersey City and Newark to the New York City area. The New Jersey Department of Transportation maintains 2.72 miles (4.38km) of roads in the area.

Transportation of "Miracle on the Hudson" US Airways Flight 1549

On June 5, 2011, J. Supor & Son transported the fuselage of US Airways Flight 1549 through Moorestown en route to the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte North Carolina. The convoy spent over 1.5 hours working to negotiate a single right turn in the center of the town. This was the most difficult maneuver on the entire seven-day, 788-mile journey. The difficulty of this one turn was known in advance. In order to negotiate the turn the team had to temporarily remove a street light and the corner of a grave yard fence. The team also had to take down a fence and remove a road light in order to make the turn. The fuselage was transported to the museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it will be displayed for the next five years. It will also be on display at the National Museum of American History in New York City and the Museum of Flight in Washington, D.C. for the remainder of the museum's run-up to the 2012 Winter Olympics. The museum will also host a private exhibition of the plane's fuselage in the summer of 2012. The exhibition will be open to the public for the first time since the flight's arrival in June of that year.

Air Quality, Water Quality, Superfund Sites & UV Index

The Air Quality index is in Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey = 55.3. These Air Quality index is based on annual reports from the EPA. Higher values are better (100=best). The number of ozone alert days is used as an indicator of air quality, as are the amounts of seven pollutants including particulates, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, lead, and volatile organic chemicals. The Water Quality Index is 1. A measure of the quality of an area’s water supply as rated by the EPA. Higher values are better (100=best). The EPA has a complex method of measuring the watershed quality, using 15 indicators such as pollutants, turbidity, sediments, and toxic discharges. The Superfund Sites Index is 10. Higher is better (100=best). Based upon the number and impact of EPA Superfund pollution sites in the county, including spending on the cleanup efforts. The UV Index in Moorestown = 3.7 and is a measure of an area's exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. This is most often a combination of sunny weather, altitude, and latitude. The UV Index has been defined by the WHO (www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/radiation-the-ultraviolet-(uv)-index) and is uniform worldwide.

Employed

The most recent city population of 6,804 individuals with a median age of 41.6 age the population grows by 2.66% in Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey population since 2000 and are distributed over a density of 1,449.9 residents per square mile of area (559.8/km²). There are average 2.65 people per household in the 7,252 households with an average household income of $101,365 a year. The unemployment rate in Alabama is 8.80% of the available work force and has dropped -5.58% over the most recent 12-month period and the projected change in job supply over the next decade based on migration patterns, economic growth, and other factors will increase by 20.04%. The number of physicians in Moorestown per 100,000 population = 287.1.

Weather

The annual rainfall in Moorestown = 44.9 inches and the annual snowfall = 15.1 inches. The annual number of days with measurable precipitation (over .01 inch) = 114. The average number of days per year that are predominantly sunny = 205. 86 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily high temperature for the month of July and 23.9 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily low temperature for the month of January. The Comfort Index (higher=better) is 42, where higher values mean a more pleasant climate. The Comfort Index measure recognizes that humidity by itself isn't the problem. (Have you noticed nobody ever complains about the weather being 'cold and humid?) It's in the summertime that we notice the humidity the most, when it's hot and muggy. Our Comfort Index uses a combination of afternoon summer temperature and humidity to closely predict the effect that the humidity will have on people.

Median Home Cost

The percentage of housing units in Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey which are owned by the occupant = 78.79%. A housing unit is a house, apartment, mobile home, or room occupied as separate living quarters. The average age of homes = 41 years with median home cost = $416,990 and home appreciation of 1.23%. This is the value of the years most recent home sales data. Its important to note that this is not the average (or arithmetic mean). The median home price is the middle value when you arrange all the sales prices of homes from lowest to highest. This is a better indicator than the average, because the median is not changed as much by a few unusually high or low values. The property tax rate of $24.67 shown here is the rate per $1,000 of home value. If for simplification for example the tax rate is $14.00 and the home value is $250,000, the property tax would be $14.00 x ($250,000/1000), or $3500. This is the 'effective' tax rate.

Study

The local school district spends $8,763 per student. There are 12.9 students for each teacher in the school, 676 students for each Librarian and 618 students for each Counselor. 5.26% of the area’s population over the age of 25 with an Associate Degree or other 2-year college degree, 29.68% with a master’s degree, Ph.D. or other advanced college degree and 23.70% with high school diplomas or high school equivalency degrees (GEDs).