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Home to 3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Trash day: look up yoursPennsville Township grades D overall, 427th among New Jersey's 466 graded towns, mostly because of schools and safety. Its schools rank behind 78% of the state's. Its police reported 24 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025, a higher rate per resident than 75% of U.S. towns. What it does well: 24% of its land is conserved. 24% of the land in Pennsville Township is conserved, above both the New Jersey town median (11%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). On hazard risk, just 25 of New Jersey’s 530 towns do worse. The biggest place to walk is Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, 3,485 acres with 1.2 miles of trail.
Where Pennsville Township beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Census counts: 1,163 in 1810, 12,684 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1737 and 3 maps from 1948 on.
3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Pennsville Township is from typical.
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Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Pennsville Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw26 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw26 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw29 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
Big draw29 mi MuseumEastern State Penitentiary
Big draw37 mi MuseumLynnewood HallUSS 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 · Lynnewood Hall: Shuvaev, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Pennsville 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 Pennsville Township.
Pennsville Township has homes that are cheap against local pay and is healthy by national standards but behind most towns in New Jersey; it also carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New Jersey (mostly coastal flooding).
At 3 years of the Philadelphia metro’s $91K median household income, the typical home (about $277K) costs less against local pay than in 95% of New Jersey towns; that ratio is one input to its C for cost of living.
Home values are up 3.4% over the year to September 2026. Homes sold in Pennsville Township spent a median 35 days on the market. The midpoint rent for Pennsville Township comes to $1,252 a month, against $1,780 a month in New Jersey’s towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns.
| Pennsville Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,252 a month | $1,780 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 80% | 77% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The largest public high school is Pennsville Memorial High School, with 483 students. The public schools here belong to the Pennsville School District. Two of its 5 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsville Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 460 | C+ |
| Pennsville Memorial High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 483 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 96% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $872 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on. 167 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 18 properties have flooded more than once.
Households in Pennsville Township have drawn federal disaster aid in 5 declared disasters, most recently in 2020. The natural-hazard score from FEMA for Pennsville Township comes to 88 of 100. 167 flood insurance claims have been paid locally since 1978. Expected losses in Pennsville Township break down as 52% from coastal flooding and 32% from inland flooding.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Reported crimes fell from 492 to 295 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
Pennsville Township’s property offense rate comes in at 21 per 1,000 residents. In Pennsville Township, the rate of reported violence is 1.9 per 1,000 residents.
| Pennsville Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 21 per 1,000 residents | 7.4 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.9 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
The average commute for its 6,630 working residents takes 24.4 minutes, against 30.5 across New Jersey.
The top destinations are Logan Township (6%), Philadelphia (5%) and Carneys Point Township (4%). Commuting out is the norm in Pennsville Township: just over a tenth of working residents work locally. Jobs based locally fell to 2,702 in 2023, 347 fewer than in 2013. Among residents locally, 12% live below the poverty line.
| Pennsville Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 8.5% | 17% | 11% |
| Median household income | $75,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 6% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
3.4 miles of trail wind through 5 parks and preserves. Pennsville Township’s trail network density stands at 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge | 1.2 mi | 3,485 |
| 2. Riverview Beach Park | 1.1 mi | 48 |
| 3. Fort Mott State Park | 0.5 mi | 65 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The range runs from 26° on a January night to 87° on a July afternoon, with about 20 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Within New Jersey it is less healthy than 88% of the 468 graded towns: New Jersey sets a high bar. Its B− for health tops all 4 graded neighbors; Mannington Township (C+) comes closest.
In Pennsville Township, 27% of adults get no exercise outside work. The town beats the New Jersey average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 13. Among adults locally, 20% have been diagnosed with depression and 15% report frequent physical distress.
| Pennsville Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 36% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 16% | 23% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 12% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Pennsville Township | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 9.3% | 11.3% |
| More adults with COPD | 7.7% | 5.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
5 within 15 miles of the center of Pennsville Township
About 5 of every 100 Pennsville Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Coastal flooding makes up 52% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
3 places in Pennsville Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
3 notable people were born in Pennsville Township.
Township in Salem County, New Jersey, US
Pennsville Township is a township in Salem County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is named for William Penn. It is the westernmost town in New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 12,684, a decrease of 725 (−5.4%) from the 2010 census count of 13,409, which in turn reflected an increase of 215 (+1.6%) from the 13,194 counted in the 2000 census. The township had the 24th-highest property tax rate in New Jersey, with an equalized rate of 4.285% in 2020, compared to 3.476% in the county as a whole and a statewide average of 2.279%. The township, and all of Salem County, is part of South Jersey and the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
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5 towns share a border with Pennsville Township.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsville Township | #427 | D | C | C | C− | B− |
| Mannington Township | — | — | C+ | — | A− | C+ |
| Salem | #452 | D− | B | D− | D | D− |
| Carneys Point Township | #404 | C− | C | B | C− | C− |
| Elsinboro Township | — | — | C+ | — | B | C− |
Mannington Township and Elsinboro Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Mannington Township and Elsinboro Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Pennsville Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Pennsville Township grades D overall, better than 10% of U.S. towns and #427 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades B− for health, C for safety and C− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
That is 3 years of the area's median household income ($91,289 across the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
3 notable people were born here, including Ritch Shydner and Gene Foster.
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