Lower Township, New Jersey
Lower Township, New Jersey | |
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| Motto: "Home of the Best Sunsets" | |
Location of Lower Township in Cape May County highlighted in red (left). Inset map: Location of Cape May County in New Jersey highlighted in red (right). | |
Census Bureau map of Lower Township, New Jersey | |
Location in Cape May County Location in New Jersey | |
| Coordinates: 38°59′02″N 74°54′41″W / 38.983768°N 74.911308°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| County | Cape May |
| Established | April 2, 1723 (as precinct) |
| Incorporated | February 21, 1798 (as township) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Faulkner Act (council–manager) |
| • Body | Township Council |
| • Mayor | Frank Sippel (R, term ends December 31, 2023) |
| • Manager | Michael Laffey |
| • Municipal clerk | Julie Picard |
| Area | |
• Total | 31.06 sq mi (80.45 km2) |
| • Land | 27.38 sq mi (70.91 km2) |
| • Water | 3.69 sq mi (9.54 km2) 11.86% |
| • Rank | 84th of 565 in state 4th of 16 in county |
| Elevation | 20 ft (6 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 22,057 |
• Estimate (2023) | 21,886 |
| • Rank | 127th of 565 in state 1st of 16 in county |
| • Density | 805.6/sq mi (311.0/km2) |
| • Rank | 407th of 565 in state 10th of 16 in county |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
| ZIP Code | 08251 – Villas |
| Area code(s) | 609 exchanges: 884, 886, 889, 898 |
| FIPS code | 3400941610 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0882044 |
| Website | www |
Lower Township is a township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 22,057, a decrease of 809 (−3.5%) from the 2010 census count of 22,866, which in turn reflected a decrease of 79 (−0.3%) from the 22,945 counted in the 2000 census.
New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Lower Township as its 34th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey. The township is part of the state's South Jersey region and the larger Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area.