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For most people who can afford it, yes. Voorhees Township grades A− overall, 175th among New Jersey's 466 graded towns. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 95% of the country. The median household earns $105K. The catch is cost: the typical home is worth about $545K, 6 years of the Philadelphia metro’s $91K median household income. On hazard risk, just 35 of New Jersey’s 530 towns do better. Voorhees Township is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns. Voorhees Township has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Glendale Methodist Episcopal Church and Four Echelon Plaza.
Where Voorhees Township beats most towns.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Jersey), ordered by how far Voorhees Township is from typical.
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Census counts: 969 in 1900, 31,069 in 2020. The archive holds 8 old photos and papers going back to 1855 and 6 maps from 1888 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Voorhees Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw11 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw12 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw13 mi Park & preservePine Barrens
Big draw12 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw13 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
Big draw14 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Voorhees 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 Voorhees Township.
Voorhees Township pairs an A− overall with homes cheaper than the New Jersey norm, carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of New Jersey (mostly inland flooding) and is safe by national standards but not by New Jersey’s.
Its widest gap with New Jersey is no health insurance: 6.6% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 11.3% statewide.
Among adults in Voorhees Township, 31% feel lonely. 13% of Voorhees Township adults report frequent mental distress, below both New Jersey’s towns (15%) and U.S. towns (17%). Of 32 CDC measures, Voorhees Township beats the New Jersey average on 16 and trails it on 1.
| Voorhees Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 28% | 35% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.7% | 11% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 12% | 14% |
| What stands out | Voorhees Township | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.6% | 11.3% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.1% | 14.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.8% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its B+ is the best School Grade on its borders; Evesham Township (B) is next.
Three of the 12 schools are below, and why each made the list. The public schools here belong to the Voorhees Township School District. The 4 public schools in Voorhees Township teach 1,995 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voorhees Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 979 | A− |
| Eastern Camden County Regional High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,847 | A− |
| Signal Hill SchoolTop results in townGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 436 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 94% of New Jersey towns, with expected losses of about $235 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
In Voorhees Township, the FEMA risk score is 14 of 100. FEMA puts three fifths of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 8% to earthquakes. Since 2004, 10 flood insurance claims have been paid out here.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Summer afternoons peak near 87° in July, and January nights bottom out around 25°; snowfall runs to about 22 inches a winter. Summers in Voorhees Township are warm, and winters chilly.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Voorhees Township rose by 2,920, to 19,425. Only nearly a tenth of working residents stay in Voorhees Township for work; the rest commute out. 24% of Voorhees Township workers work remotely from home, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 16% and U.S. towns at 11%. In Voorhees Township, the typical journey to work is 30 minutes.
| Voorhees Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 24% | 16% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 30 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $105,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 6.9% | 6% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The biggest park or preserve is Stafford's Woods Disc Golf Course, at 95 acres. Trails run 2.1 miles in 5 parks and preserves. Voorhees Township’s trail density comes in at 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Voorhees Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 8.9% | 11% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Stafford's Woods Disc Golf Course | 0.6 mi | 95 |
| 2. Connolly Park | 0.5 mi | 26 |
| 3. Round Hill Road Playground | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Voorhees Township grades A− overall with a typical home of about $545K, below the New Jersey typical value; only 24 of the 132 New Jersey towns graded A− or better can say that.
Voorhees Township: 62% of households own their home. Values rose 8.7% in the 12 months to September 2026. The midpoint rent here is $1,754 a month.
| Voorhees Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 62% | 77% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,754 a month | $1,780 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
At 19.1 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports more crime than 70% of New Jersey’s graded towns. Reported crimes rose from 418 to 669 over the last three FBI years, a rise beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
Voorhees Township’s property offense rate stands at 20.4 per 1,000 residents. For Voorhees Township, the level of violent crime is 0.8 per 1,000 residents.
| Voorhees Township | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 20.4 per 1,000 residents | 7.4 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.8 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
15 within 15 miles of the center of Voorhees Township
About 6 of every 100 Voorhees Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
2 places in Voorhees Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
13 notable people were born in Voorhees Township.
Township in Camden County, New Jersey, US
Voorhees Township is a township in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is a suburb in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 31,069, an increase of 1,938 (+6.7%) from the 2010 census count of 29,131, which in turn reflects an increase of 1,005 (+3.6%) from the 28,126 counted in the 2000 census. Voorhees Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1, 1899, from portions of Waterford Township. Portions of the township were taken on March 8, 1924, to form Gibbsboro. The township is named for Foster McGowan Voorhees, the Governor of New Jersey who authorized its …
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10 towns share a border with Voorhees Township.
It grades higher overall than all 4 graded towns on its borders; Evesham Township (B+) comes closest. Somerdale next door grades lower for schools (C− to Voorhees Township’s B+) and higher for cost of living (C+ to D).
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voorhees Township | #175 | A− | D | B− | B+ | A |
| Echelon | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Somerdale | #395 | C− | C+ | D | C− | B− |
| Gibbsboro | — | — | C− | B− | B− | A− |
| Lindenwold | #439 | D− | C | C− | D− | C− |
| Evesham Township | #217 | B+ | D | B− | B | A |
| Berlin Township | #366 | C | C− | C− | C− | A− |
| West Berlin | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Gibbsboro has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Echelon and West Berlin aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Voorhees Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Voorhees Township grades A− overall, better than 76% of U.S. towns and #175 of 466 in New Jersey. It grades A for health, B− for safety and B+ 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.
Voorhees Township has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places. 13 notable people were born here, including Kelsi Dahlia and Lauren Schmetterling.
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