Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 3,340, settled in 1907.
Lawnside earns a D−, ranked 441st of 466 in New Jersey, mostly because of safety and schools. Its crime rate is higher than 97% of U.S. towns, with 10 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025. Its schools rank behind 94% of the state's. What it does well: it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 96% of U.S. towns. Lawnside’s property crime rate is 57.4 per 1,000 residents, above both the New Jersey town median (7.4) and the median of U.S. towns (9.9). On health, just 22 of New Jersey’s 530 towns do worse. Lawnside has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Peter Mott House and Lawnside School.
Where Lawnside beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where Lawnside’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Lawnside is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 96% of comparable towns) to D− for safety (better than 3%), so the D− overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,379 in 1930, 2,955 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1940 and 7 maps from 1891 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lawnside. Close and well known come first.
Big draw7 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw8 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw8 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw9 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
Big draw10 mi MuseumEastern State Penitentiary
Big draw17 mi Park & preservePine BarrensUSS New Jersey: Camera Operator: PH3 BRYANT, Public domain · Lincoln Financial Field: The original uploader was Betp at French Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Xfinity Mobile Arena: Jen Smith, CC BY 3.0 · Independence Hall: Mys 721tx, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Eastern State Penitentiary: Davidt8, Public domain · Pine Barrens: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lawnside, 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 Lawnside.
Lawnside carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding) and draws workers from Gloucester Township and beyond, but it reports more crime than Somerdale and its other graded neighbors.
Each of the 4 graded towns on its borders reports less crime per resident, from Somerdale (D) to Barrington (B+). Property crime runs at 57.4 per 1,000 residents, 5 times the New Jersey rate, most of it theft.
Lawnside’s violent crime rate is 2.9 per 1,000 residents. Lawnside reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 97% report less.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Each of its 5 graded neighbors has a higher School Grade than its D, Haddonfield highest at A.
Its public schools are run by the Lawnside School District. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawnside School DistrictLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 333 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests
3,180 jobs are based in Lawnside, 2.5 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 2,191 in 2013 to 3,180.
Most working residents leave Lawnside for work: only 5% work in town. 20% of Lawnside residents live below the poverty line. Jobs based in Lawnside grew to 3,180 in 2023, 989 more than in 2013.
| Lawnside | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 20% | 6% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $72,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.7% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Only 10 of the 463 New Jersey towns we compare have a lower median rent than Lawnside. 65% of households own their home in Lawnside. Typical home values rose 4.5% in the year to September 2026.
| Lawnside | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,073 a month | $1,780 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 65% | 77% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 92% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $210 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Lawnside is 16 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
All 5 graded neighbors score healthier than its C−, from Somerdale (B−) to Haddonfield (A+).
Of the 468 New Jersey towns we compare, none has a higher share of adults who have high blood pressure than Lawnside. Lawnside beats the New Jersey average on 6 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 21. Among 468 New Jersey towns, just 1 have a higher share of adults who have diabetes than Lawnside.
| Lawnside | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 9.7% | 12% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 46% | 36% | 36% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 47% | 32% | 35% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Lawnside | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer binge drinkers | 11.9% | 15.5% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6% | 7.5% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 15.2% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lawnside has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 26° and about 22 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
22 within 15 miles of the center of Lawnside
About 5 of every 100 Lawnside residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Historically Black Community in Camden County, New Jersey
Lawnside is a borough in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Lawnside was developed in 1840 and incorporated in 1926 as the first independent, self-governing Black municipality north of the Mason–Dixon line. As of the 2020 United States census, approximately 75% of the borough's 2,955 population still identified as Black or African American, although this percentage has declined over the past two census periods. The population in 2020 had increased by 10 (+0.3%) from the 2010 census count of 2,945,
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9 towns share a border with Lawnside.
All 5 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its D−; Somerdale (C−) is closest. Haddonfield next door grades higher for schools (A to Lawnside’s D) and lower for cost of living (D to C+).
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawnside | #441 | D− | C+ | D− | D | C− |
| Ashland | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cherry Hill Township | #180 | B+ | D | — | B | A |
| Barrington | #165 | A− | C | B+ | C+ | A |
| Magnolia | #345 | C | C | C− | C− | A− |
| Tavistock | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Somerdale | #395 | C− | C+ | D | C− | B− |
| Haddonfield | #52 | A | D | B | A | A+ |
Cherry Hill Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Ashland and Tavistock aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Lawnside with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Lawnside grades D− overall, better than 4% of U.S. towns and #441 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades C− for health, D− for safety and D for schools. Safety 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+.
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