Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Pine Hill is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C− overall, ranked 390th of 466 in New Jersey, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is safety: crime is low: it reports less per resident than 44% of U.S. towns. Expect to pay for it: the typical home is worth about $283K, 3.1 years of the Philadelphia metro’s $91K median household income. Pine Hill’s trail density is 2.1 miles per square mile, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 0.7 and U.S. towns at 0.4. Only 19 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score higher on hazard risk. Pine Hill's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 96% of U.S. towns.
Where Pine Hill beats most towns.
Where Pine Hill’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 Pine Hill is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,392 in 1930, 10,743 in 2020. The archive holds 9 old photos and papers going back to 2011 and 6 maps from 1888 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Pine Hill. Close and well known come first.
Big draw14 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw12 mi Park & preservePine Barrens
Big draw13 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw13 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw15 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
Big draw17 mi MuseumEastern State PenitentiaryUSS New Jersey: Camera Operator: PH3 BRYANT, Public domain · Pine Barrens: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Pine Hill, 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 Pine Hill.
Pine Hill carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding), has more than doubled its jobs in ten years and is safe by national standards but not by New Jersey’s.
Pine Hill sits against 11% in New Jersey’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns on this measure. 11 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Pine Hill Veterans Memorial Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by the Pine Hill School District. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Overbrook Senior High School, with 860 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| John H. Glenn SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 469 | C |
| Overbrook Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 860 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
59% of Pine Hill households own their home. The typical Pine Hill home is worth about $283,000, up 4.2% in a year, 51% below the New Jersey typical home. The median rent in Pine Hill is $1,411 a month.
| Pine Hill | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 59% | 77% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,411 a month | $1,780 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 97% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $130 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Pine Hill’s FEMA risk score is 11 of 100. Since 1978, 6 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Pine Hill.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Jobs based here grew from 1,229 in 2013 to 2,474.
Most working residents leave Pine Hill for work: only 2% work in town. 16% of residents live below the poverty line in Pine Hill. Since 2013, Pine Hill has added 1,245 jobs, to 2,474 in 2023.
| Pine Hill | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 16% | 6% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $73,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 9.5% | 17% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Pine Hill has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 25° and about 22 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Pine Hill beats the New Jersey average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 17.
| Pine Hill | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 36% | 36% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 15% | 17% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 11% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Pine Hill | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.6% | 7.5% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 10.6% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
At 21 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports more crime than 74% of New Jersey’s graded towns. Reported crimes fell from 192 to 118 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
Pine Hill reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 56% report less.
| Pine Hill | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.8 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 9 per 1,000 residents | 7.4 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
6 within 15 miles of the center of Pine Hill
About 6 of every 100 Pine Hill residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Borough in Camden County, New Jersey, US
Pine Hill is a borough in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 10,743, an increase of 510 (+5.0%) from the 2010 census count of 10,233, which in turn reflected a decline of 647 (−5.9%) from the 10,880 counted in the 2000 census. Pine Hill was created on April 23, 1929, from Clementon Township, one of seven municipalities created from the now-defunct township, and one of five new municipalities, including Hi-Nella Borough, Lindenwold Borough, Pine Valley Borough, and Somerdale Borough, created on that same date. Earlier known as Mont Ararat or Clementon Heights, the name "Pine Hill" was chosen to reflect the trees a…
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5 towns share a border with Pine Hill.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Hill | #390 | C− | C | C+ | C− | C+ |
| Gloucester Township | #306 | B− | C− | B | C | B+ |
| Sicklerville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Clementon | #307 | B− | C | — | C+ | B |
| Berlin | #173 | A− | C− | B | B | A− |
| Lindenwold | #439 | D− | C | C− | D− | C− |
Clementon reports no FBI crime data of its own. Sicklerville isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Pine Hill with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Pine Hill grades C− overall, better than 20% of U.S. towns and #390 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades C+ for health, C+ for safety and C− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
2 notable people were born here, including Nick Walker and Jermaine Jones.
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