Willingboro Township, New Jersey
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Willingboro Township (known from 1959 to 1963 as Levittown and Levittown Township) is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a suburb of Philadelphia and part of the state's South Jersey region. The township, and all of Burlington County, is a part of the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley.[19]
Willingboro Township, New Jersey | |
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Motto: "A Naturally Better Place to Be" | |
Coordinates: 40.02795°N 74.886984°W / 40.02795; -74.886984[1][2] | |
Country | United States |
State | New Jersey |
County | Burlington |
Formed | November 6, 1688 |
Incorporated | February 21, 1798 |
Renamed | November 3, 1959 to November 5, 1963 as Levittown Township |
Named for | Wellingborough |
Government | |
• Type | Faulkner Act (council–manager) |
• Body | Township Council |
• Mayor | Kaya McIntosh (D, term ends December 31, 2027)[4][5] |
• Manager | Dwayne M. Harris[6] |
• Municipal clerk | Vacant[7] |
Area | |
• Total | 8.14 sq mi (21.08 km2) |
• Land | 7.73 sq mi (20.01 km2) |
• Water | 0.41 sq mi (1.07 km2) 5.09% |
• Rank | 230th of 565 in state 22nd of 40 in county[1] |
Elevation | 30 ft (9 m) |
Population | |
• Total | 31,889 |
• Estimate | 32,122 |
• Rank | 73rd of 565 in state 3rd of 40 in county[12] |
• Density | 4,128.0/sq mi (1,593.8/km2) |
• Rank | 151st of 565 in state 6th of 40 in county[12] |
Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
ZIP Code | |
Area code(s) | 609 and 856[15] |
FIPS code | 3400581440[1][16][17] |
GNIS feature ID | 0882099[1][18] |
Website | www |
As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 31,889,[9][10] an increase of 260 (+0.8%) from the 2010 census count of 31,629,[20][21] which in turn reflected a decline of 1,379 (−4.2%) from the 33,008 counted in the 2000 census.[22]
The township has British roots going back to the 17th century. Abraham Levitt and Sons purchased and developed Willingboro land in the 1950s and 1960s as a planned community in their Levittown model.[23]
The 1967 book The Levittowners, by sociologist Herbert J. Gans, was a famous case study in American urban sociology based on the development of Levittown.[24] Willingboro later became a predominantly African American suburb.[25]