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Hopewell Township grades D overall, 411th among New Jersey's 466 graded towns, mostly because of health and schools. CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 93% of the country. Its schools rank behind 79% of the state's. One bright spot: natural-hazard risk is low. 34% of the land in Hopewell Township is conserved, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 11% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. Hopewell Township's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 100% of U.S. towns. Cohansey River Wildlife Management Area, at 822 acres with 2 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
Where Hopewell Township beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| Widest gap | Hopewell Township | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 16.9% | 7% |
Census counts: 1,987 in 1810, a low of 1,480 in 1850, 4,391 in 2020. The archive holds 11 old photos and papers going back to 1876 and 4 maps from 1890 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Hopewell Township is from typical.
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Who provides power, water and the rest in Hopewell Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Hopewell Township.
Hopewell Township carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding), keeps more of its land conserved than most of New Jersey and has commutes shorter than most of New Jersey.
29% of adults say their health is fair or poor in Hopewell Township, above both New Jersey’s towns (15%) and U.S. towns (19%). 17% of Hopewell Township adults report frequent physical distress. Only 10 of the 468 New Jersey towns we compare have a higher share of adults who report frequent mental distress than Hopewell Township.
| Hopewell Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 15% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 22% | 25% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 45% | 36% | 36% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Hopewell Township | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.1% | 7.5% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 16.9% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its public schools are run by the Hopewell Township School District. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopewell CrestLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 524 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
Its 6,722 conserved acres are a larger share of the town than in 89% of New Jersey towns.
7.7 miles of trail in 5 parks and preserves. Hopewell Township’s trail density is 0.3 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Cohansey River Wildlife Management Area | 2 mi | 822 |
| 2. Hopewell Township Park | 0.9 mi | 126 |
| 3. Mary Elmer Woods | 0.5 mi | 60 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 95% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $374 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Hopewell Township is 13 of 100. Since 1979, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Hopewell Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The average commute for its 1,976 working residents takes 22.2 minutes, against 30.5 across New Jersey.
Most working residents leave Hopewell Township for work: only 11% work in town. 6.3% of workers work from home in Hopewell Township. Since 2013, Hopewell Township has added 101 jobs, to 1,170 in 2023.
| Hopewell Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 6.3% | 17% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $100,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Hopewell Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 25° and about 12 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
1 within 15 miles of the center of Hopewell Township
About 4 of every 100 Hopewell Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Jersey.
Where Hopewell Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Township in the United States
Hopewell Township is a township in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the Vineland-Bridgeton metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses those cities and all of Cumberland County for statistical purposes and which constitutes a part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 4,391, a decrease of 180 (−3.9%) from the 2010 census count of 4,571, which in turn reflected an increase of 137 (+3.1%) from the 4,434 counted in the 2000 census. Hopewell Township was first formed as a precinct on January 19, 1748, and was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, as one …
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10 towns share a border with Hopewell Township.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Upper Deerfield Township (D−) comes closest.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopewell Township | #411 | D | C | — | C− | D |
| Upper Deerfield Township | #443 | D− | D | — | D | D |
| Fairfield Township | #464 | D− | C− | — | D | D |
| Greenwich Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Silver Lake | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bridgeton | #463 | D− | C− | D− | D− | D− |
| Stow Creek Township | — | — | D | — | C− | D |
| Sunset Lake | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Stow Creek Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Hopewell Township, Upper Deerfield Township, Fairfield Township and Stow Creek Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Greenwich Township, Silver Lake and Sunset Lake aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Hopewell Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Hopewell Township grades D overall, better than 15% of U.S. towns and #411 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades D for health and C− for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.