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Upper Deerfield Township grades D− overall, ranked 443rd of 466 in New Jersey, mostly because of health and schools. Residents are less healthy than 90% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Its public schools trail 88% of New Jersey towns on state tests and graduation. What it does well: natural-hazard risk is low. 28% of the land in Upper Deerfield Township is conserved, above both the New Jersey town median (11%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). The typical home is worth about $246K, 3.7 years of the Vineland metro’s $67K median household income. Upper Deerfield Township's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 99% of U.S. towns.
Where Upper Deerfield Township beats most towns.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Upper Deerfield Township is from typical.
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Census counts: 2,051 in 1930, 7,645 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1850 and 3 maps from 1890 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Upper Deerfield 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 Upper Deerfield Township.
Upper Deerfield Township carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding) and trades workers with Vineland and other neighbors.
Just over two fifths of Upper Deerfield Township adults have obesity, against 28% in New Jersey’s towns and 35% across U.S. towns. For adults here, the share who get no exercise outside work is 36%. This New Jersey town beats the New Jersey average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 23.
| Upper Deerfield Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 11% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 8.4% | 8.1% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 45% | 36% | 36% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 22% | 25% |
| What stands out | Upper Deerfield Township | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.5% | 7.5% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 15.6% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its public schools are run by the Cumberland Regional School District. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed. The largest public high school is Cumberland Regional High School, with 1,161 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles F. Seabrook SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–2 | Grades PK–2 | 412 | – |
| Cumberland Regional High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,161 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 97% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $266 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
In Upper Deerfield Township, the FEMA risk score is 11 of 100. Upper Deerfield Township has had 3 paid flood insurance claims since 2003. FEMA puts 28% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 24% to hurricanes. Federal aid has come to Upper Deerfield Township households in 8 declared disasters; the latest was in 2016.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Across 1 park or preserve: 3.4 miles of trail. Upper Deerfield Township’s concentration of trails comes in at 0.1 miles per square mile. One park or preserve covers 16 acres in the town.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bridgeton City Park | — | 16 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Expect July afternoons of 87° and January nights of 25°, with about 12 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Upper Deerfield Township has about as many jobs (3,442) as working residents, but only 434 people both live and work here.
Only 12% of working residents stay in Upper Deerfield Township for work; the rest commute out. Among workers here, 5.8% work from home. The top destinations are Vineland (15%), Bridgeton (12%) and Millville (4%). In Upper Deerfield Township, the typical household income is $83,000.
| Upper Deerfield Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 5.8% | 17% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 6% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 12% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $83,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Upper Deerfield Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw31 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw28 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw31 mi Park & preservePine Barrens
Big draw28 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw32 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
Big draw33 mi MuseumEastern State PenitentiaryUSS New Jersey: Camera Operator: PH3 BRYANT, Public domain · Lincoln Financial Field: The original uploader was Betp at French Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pine Barrens: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Xfinity Mobile Arena: Jen Smith, CC BY 3.0 · Independence Hall: Mys 721tx, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Eastern State Penitentiary: Davidt8, Public domain
1 within 15 miles of the center of Upper Deerfield Township
About 6 of every 100 Upper Deerfield Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Township in Cumberland County, New Jersey, US
Upper Deerfield 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 7,645, a decrease of 15 (−0.2%) from the 2010 census count of 7,660, which in turn reflected an increase of 104 (+1.4%) from the 7,556 counted in the 2000 census. Upper Deerfield Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 23, 1922, from portions of Deerfield Township,…
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8 towns share a border with Upper Deerfield Township.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Deerfield Township | #443 | D− | D | — | D | D |
| Hopewell Township | #411 | D | C | — | C− | D |
| Silver Lake | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fairfield Township | #464 | D− | C− | — | D | D |
| Bridgeton | #463 | D− | C− | D− | D− | D− |
| Sunset Lake | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Deerfield Township | #461 | D− | D | — | D | D |
| Seeley | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Upper Deerfield Township, Hopewell Township, Fairfield Township and Deerfield Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Silver Lake, Sunset Lake and Seeley aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Upper Deerfield Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Upper Deerfield Township grades D− overall, better than 4% of U.S. towns and #443 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades D for health and D for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
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