Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Population 27,611: a town incorporated in 1826.
Few extremes here. Schools are its weak spot (C) — its public schools trail 71% of New Jersey towns on state tests and graduation. Pemberton Township’s overall grade, C−, puts it better than 20% of U.S. towns. In the ranking it comes 387th of 466 in New Jersey. It lags on safety as well: its crime rate is higher than just over three fifths of U.S. towns, with 87 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025. Homes run about $355K for a typical one, 3.9 times the Philadelphia metro’s $91K median household income. 16% of the land locally is conserved, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 11% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, at 8,591 acres with 48.8 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
Figures: schools, state test and graduation results · FBI crime data, 2025 · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · USGS PAD-US · OpenStreetMap.
Where Pemberton Township beats most towns.
Census counts: 797 in 1870, 1,371 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1910 and 7 maps from 1888 on.
4 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Pemberton Township is from typical.
Its best grade is an A for the outdoors (77 miles of trails; 16% conserved land), which describes the town but isn’t part of the overall grade; its C− comes from the livability subjects above.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Pemberton Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw16 mi Park & preservePine Barrens
Big draw15 mi Theme parkSix Flags Great Adventure2.2M visitors a year
Big draw28 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw30 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw30 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw29 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a yearPine Barrens: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Six Flags Great Adventure: Unknown, CC BY-SA 2.5 · USS 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Pemberton 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 Pemberton Township.
Pemberton Township costs less than Woodland Township or any other town next door and is safe by national standards but not by New Jersey’s; it also has a long record of flood insurance claims.
77 miles of trail in 9 parks and preserves. Pemberton Township’s density of trails comes in at 1.2 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Brendan T. Byrne State Forest | 48.8 mi | 8,591 |
| 2. Rechnitz Pine Barrens Preserve | 8.2 mi | 814 |
| 3. Evert Trail Preserve | 1.5 mi | 170 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The public schools here belong to the Pemberton Township School District. Two of its 9 schools are shown below, with the reason for each. Public school enrollment locally: 2,533 students across 6 schools.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denbo Crichton SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 855 | C− |
| Pemberton Township High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 972 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
Its typical home is the least expensive on its borders; Woodland Township is next at $417K. The median property tax bill is $4,661, against $9,590 across New Jersey, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
In the year to September 2026, typical home values climbed 5.7%. Pemberton Township’s median rent stands at $1,345 a month. For households locally, the share who own their home is 73%.
| Pemberton Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,345 a month | $1,780 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 73% | 77% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Jobs based here fell from 5,727 in 2013 to 4,362.
The top destinations are Trenton (4%), Philadelphia (4%) and Mount Laurel Township (3%). Only nearly a tenth of working residents stay in Pemberton Township for work; the rest commute out. Employers in Pemberton Township shed 1,365 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 4,362. In Pemberton Township, the mean commuting time is 32 minutes.
| Pemberton Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 6.9% | 17% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $81,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 8.4% | 6% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The seasons in Pemberton Township: chilly winters, warm summers. Summer afternoons peak near 87° in July, and January nights bottom out around 24°; snowfall runs to about 24 inches a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
At 23.4 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports more crime than 77% of New Jersey’s graded towns. Reported crimes fell from 435 to 341 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
For Pemberton Township, the violent offense rate is 3.2 per 1,000 residents. The property offense rate locally is 9.3 per 1,000 residents.
| Pemberton Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 3.2 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 9.3 per 1,000 residents | 7.4 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
18% of adults report frequent mental distress in Pemberton Township. In Pemberton Township, 29% of adults get no exercise outside work, and 17% have been diagnosed with depression.
| Pemberton Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 12% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 22% | 25% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 16% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 15% | 17% |
| What stands out | Pemberton Township | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| More smokers | 15% | 10.9% |
| More adults with COPD | 6.9% | 5.1% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 12.9% | 9.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
87 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 10 properties have flooded more than once.
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Pemberton Township after 9 declared disasters, most recently in 2020. Storm and flood damage is expected to run higher than in 54% of U.S. communities. Paid flood insurance claims locally since 1978: 87. FEMA puts 59% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 6% to strong winds.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
None within 15 miles of Pemberton Township; the nearest are
About 7 of every 100 Pemberton Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Where Pemberton Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
4 places in Pemberton Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
Borough in Burlington County, New Jersey, US
Pemberton is a borough in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,371, a decrease of 38 (−2.7%) from the 2010 census count of 1,409, which in turn reflected an increase of 199 (+16.4%) from the 1,210 counted in the 2000 census. The township, and all of Burlington County, is a part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Pemberton was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on December 15, 1826, within portions of New Hanover Township and Northampton Township (now known as Mount Holly Township). Pemberton became an independent borough c. 1894. The borough is named for James Pemberton, a p…
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6 towns share a border with Pemberton Township.
All 3 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its C−; Southampton Township (C+) is closest. Springfield Township next door grades higher for schools (B+ to Pemberton Township’s C) and lower for cost of living (D to C+).
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pemberton Township | #387 | C− | C+ | C+ | C | C+ |
| Woodland Township | — | — | C | — | B− | B− |
| Southampton Township | #334 | C+ | C− | — | B− | A− |
| Eastampton Township | #328 | C+ | D− | B | C | A− |
| Springfield Township | #301 | B− | D | — | B+ | A− |
| New Hanover Township | — | — | D− | — | — | B+ |
| Juliustown | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Woodland Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Woodland Township, Southampton Township, Springfield Township and New Hanover Township report no FBI crime data of their own. New Hanover Township and Juliustown aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Pemberton Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Pemberton Township grades C− overall, better than 20% of U.S. towns and #387 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades C+ for health, C+ for safety and C for schools.
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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