Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,330, founded in 1871.
The best of Wenonah’s subject grades are an A+ for health and an A for incomes and walkability. Only 15 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score higher on cost of living. Wenonah’s trail density is 5.0 miles per square mile, where New Jersey’s towns sit at 0.7 and U.S. towns at 0.4. Only 12 of New Jersey’s 530 towns score higher on the outdoors. Memorial Presbyterian Church is on the National Register of Historic Places. Wenonah has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Wenonah beats most towns.
Where Wenonah’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 Wenonah is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 166 in 1880, 2,283 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1850 and 7 maps from 1891 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Wenonah. Close and well known come first.
Big draw8 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw10 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw8 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw11 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
Big draw12 mi MuseumEastern State Penitentiary
7 mi Park & preserveSchuylkill RiverLincoln Financial Field: The original uploader was Betp at French Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · USS New Jersey: Camera Operator: PH3 BRYANT, Public domain · Xfinity Mobile Arena: Jen Smith, CC BY 3.0 · Independence Hall: Mys 721tx, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Eastern State Penitentiary: Davidt8, Public domain · Schuylkill River: Emy111 at English Wikipedia, Public domain
Who provides power, water and the rest in Wenonah, 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 Wenonah.
Wenonah beats the New Jersey average on 15 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 11% of Wenonah adults say their health is fair or poor, against 15% in New Jersey’s towns and 19% across U.S. towns. 18% of Wenonah adults get no exercise outside work.
| Wenonah | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 22% | 25% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 12% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.7% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Wenonah | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.2% | 14.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5% | 11.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.8% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its public schools are run by the Wenonah Boro School District. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wenonah Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 158 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NJ on state tests and graduation
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 84% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The typical Wenonah home is worth about $361,000, up 4.4% in a year, 37% below the New Jersey typical home. 93% of households own their home in Wenonah.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Most working residents leave Wenonah for work: only 3% work in town. Wenonah’s median household income is $132,000. Since 2013, Wenonah has added 98 jobs, to 335 in 2023.
| Wenonah | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $132,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 2.2% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 19% | 16% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Wenonah has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 26° and about 23 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the New Jersey average. Wenonah has grown 2.1% since 2020, to 2,330 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 53% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 44% across New Jersey.
| Wenonah | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 53% | 45% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 22% | 21% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 19% | 18% | 18% |
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±5 points. Across New Jersey, 50.8% of residents are women.
| Wenonah | NJ | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12% | 11.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.1% | 10.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.1% | 8.4% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 11.7% | 12.9% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.6% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 17% | 12.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 11.4% | 13.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.7% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.5% | 7.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 1.3% | 9.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 21.6% | 25.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 13.8% | 15% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10.1% | 6.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 32.1% | 26.1% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 21.2% | 17.6% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,300, single groups can be off by several points
18 within 15 miles of the center of Wenonah
About 9 of every 100 Wenonah residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Jersey.
5 notable people were born in Wenonah.
Borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey, US
Wenonah is a borough in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 2,283, an increase of five people (+0.2%) from the 2010 census count of 2,278, which in turn reflected a decline of 39 (−1.7%) from the 2,317 counted in the 2000 census. It is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-most populous city. Wenonah was established as a borough by the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1883, from portions of Deptford Township, based on the results of a referendum that was held two days earlier. The borough was named for the mother of Hiawatha in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The…
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4 towns share a border with Wenonah.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wenonah | — | — | B− | — | B− | A+ |
| Mantua Township | #181 | B+ | C− | C+ | B+ | A |
| Sewell | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Deptford Township | #322 | C+ | C− | — | C | B+ |
| Oak Valley | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Wenonah has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Wenonah and Deptford Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Sewell and Oak Valley aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Wenonah with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
That is 4 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 B−.
5 notable people were born here, including Tim Squyres and Ethel A. Grosscup.
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