Willingboro Township, New Jersey | |
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| Motto: "A Naturally Better Place to Be" | |
 Location of Willingboro Township in Burlington County highlighted in red (right). Inset map: Location of Burlington County in New Jersey highlighted in red (left). | |
 Census Bureau map of Willingboro Township, New Jersey | |
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| Coordinates: 40°01′41″N 74°53′13″W / 40.02795°N 74.886984°W[1][2] | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New Jersey |
| County |  Burlington |
| Formed | November 6, 1688 |
| Incorporated | February 21, 1798 |
| Renamed | November 3, 1959 to November 5, 1963 as Levittown Township |
| Named for | Wellingborough |
| Government | |
| • Type | Faulkner Act (council–manager) |
| • Body | Township Council |
| • Mayor | Kaya McIntosh (D, term ends December 31, 2027)[3][4] |
| • Manager | Dwayne M. Harris[5] |
| • Municipal clerk | Vacant[6] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8.14 sq mi (21.08 km2) |
| • Land | 7.73 sq mi (20.01 km2) |
| • Water | 0.41 sq mi (1.07 km2) 5.09% |
| • Rank | 230th of 565 in state 22nd of 40 in county[1] |
| Elevation | 30 ft (9 m) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 31,889 |
| • Estimate | 32,122 |
| • Rank | 73rd of 565 in state 3rd of 40 in county[12] |
| • Density | 4,128.0/sq mi (1,593.8/km2) |
| • Rank | 151st of 565 in state 6th of 40 in county[12] |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
| ZIP Code | |
| Area code(s) | 609 and 856[15] |
| FIPS code | 3400581440[1][16][17] |
| GNIS feature ID | 0882099[1][18] |
| Website | www |
Willingboro Township (known from 1959 to 1963 as Levittown and Levittown Township) is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a suburb of Philadelphia and part of the state's South Jersey region. The township, and all of Burlington County, is a part of the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley.[19]
As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 31,889,[9][10] an increase of 260 (+0.8%) from the 2010 census count of 31,629,[20][21] which in turn reflected a decline of 1,379 (−4.2%) from the 33,008 counted in the 2000 census.[22]
The township has British roots going back to the 17th century. Abraham Levitt and Sons purchased and developed Willingboro land in the 1950s and 1960s as a planned community in their Levittown model.[23]
The 1967 book The Levittowners, by sociologist Herbert J. Gans, was a famous case study in American urban sociology based on the development of Levittown.[24] Willingboro later became a predominantly African American suburb.[25]
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- ^ US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990, United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.
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- ^ Township Manager, Willingboro Township. Accessed May 3, 2024.
- ^ Township Clerk, Willingboro Township. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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PopEstwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Population Density by County and Municipality: New Jersey, 2020 and 2021, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed March 1, 2023.
- ^ Look Up a ZIP Code for Willingboro, NJ, United States Postal Service. Accessed September 1, 2012.
- ^ Zip Codes, State of New Jersey. Accessed October 21, 2013.
- ^ Area Code Lookup - NPA NXX for Willingboro, NJ, Area-Codes.com. Accessed October 22, 2013.
- ^ U.S. Census website, United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.
- ^ Geographic Codes Lookup for New Jersey, Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed April 1, 2022.
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LWD2010was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed May 1, 2023.
- ^ Hester, Tom. "Willingboro: a half-century of suburbia", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 12, 2018, updated April 2, 2019. Accessed October 26, 2019.
- ^ Gans, Herbert J. Gans (1967). The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community (PDF). Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-05571-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 9, 2005. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Pardlo, Gregory (2018). Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1524731779. Retrieved June 25, 2019.