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Camden County sits directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia and includes the City of Camden, compact older boroughs, large suburban townships, and more wooded communities toward the east. Its housing stock is equally varied, with rowhouses, early twentieth-century homes, postwar neighborhoods, condominiums, townhouses, and newer subdivisions. PATCO, NJ Transit, I-295, Route 42, Route 30, and the New Jersey Turnpike make transportation a major part of the county's geography. Cooper River Park, the Camden Waterfront, neighborhood downtowns, hospitals, colleges, restaurants, shops, and arts and entertainment venues create distinct local centers throughout the county.
Community profiles updated October 17, 2026.
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Audubon and Audubon Park
Audubon grew from farm tracts and small settlements such as Orston and Cedarcroft into a borough in 1905. Next door, Audubon Park has a different origin: it began as wartime housing for Camden shipyard workers and became a separate borough in 1947, retaining its mutual-housing roots.
Barrington's beginnings are tied to farms and a railroad stop once called Dentdale. The arrival of rail service encouraged the village that became a borough in 1917; after World War II, former farms and even a local airport gave way to the residential and industrial development that reshaped the town.
Bellmawr's name recalls Ernest C. Bell and the farm he operated, but its local story reaches back to landings and brickmaking along the Timber Creeks. Incorporated in 1926 from Centre Township, the borough also has Revolutionary War connections through Captain William Harrison and the fighting around his Little Timber Creek property.
The old Long-a-Coming name belongs to Berlin Borough's village history, while Berlin Township remains a separate municipality. In the borough, the nineteenth-century Berlin Hotel became part of the public library after being moved along the White Horse Pike; the township's municipal center is in West Berlin.
Brooklawn occupies a Delaware River setting across from Philadelphia, with a residential history tied to South Jersey's shipyards. During World War I, Noreg Village was built here to house workers at shipbuilding facilities in South Gloucester, giving the later borough an origin in the region's wartime industrial expansion.
Camden's Delaware River setting has shaped the city from its early ferry landings to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. Its industrial story includes the Victor Talking Machine Company's recording studios and factories, while the former Cooper's Ferry linked South Jersey with Philadelphia long before a bridge crossed the river.
Cherry Hill's neighborhoods grew from the farms and crossroads villages of the former Delaware Township. Places such as Ellisburg and Colestown preserve those older names, while postwar developments including Kingston Estates and Brookfield tell another chapter of the township's transformation; voters adopted the Cherry Hill name in 1961.
Chesilhurst sits entirely within the Pinelands, between Winslow and Waterford Townships. The Camden and Atlantic Railroad's historic corridor passes through the borough, linking its place on today's map with the rail route that connected inland South Jersey communities to Atlantic City in the nineteenth century.
Clementon Lake and Bottoms Lake are part of a townscape shaped by the north branch of Timber Creek. The downtown grew around the early settlement of Newman's Mills, where dams powered a gristmill and sawmill; Samuel Clement's later land purchase gave the village the name it carries today.
Between Newton Creek and the Cooper River, Collingswood grew from Quaker settlements and family farms into a borough. The Collings-Knight and Thackara houses connect today's town with those early landowners, while the Stokes-Lee property recalls an earlier creekside landing, tavern and nineteenth-century mineral-spring resort.
Silver Lake sits at the center of Gibbsboro's story, from an early mill settlement to John Lucas's paint-manufacturing town. Lucas bought the mill in 1852, drawn by the water's purity; the borough's historic core still reflects the relationship between the lake, industrial buildings and housing built for owners and workers.
Gloucester City's western edge follows the Delaware River, where Dutch traders established Fort Nassau in the seventeenth century. Farther inland, the city's designated historic area includes portions of King, Burlington and Willow Streets, preserving a townscape whose history extends well beyond the waterfront and the nearby Walt Whitman Bridge.
Gloucester Township's older settlements left landmarks tucked into today's suburban landscape. In Glendora, the Gabreil Daveis Tavern recalls travelers and watermen moving goods along Timber Creek; in Blenheim, the privately occupied Chew-Powell House and adjoining burial ground preserve another piece of the township's early history.
Haddon Heights took shape around an 1890 railroad station and the street grid laid out by the Lippincotts and Charles Hillman. The downtown near the tracks and White Horse Pike, together with early twentieth-century four-square and Colonial Revival houses, still expresses the borough's origins as a planned railroad suburb.
Westmont, Bettlewood, Bluebird and West Collingswood Heights are some of the neighborhood names within Haddon Township. Along Haddon Avenue, buildings stand close to the road on lots laid out before cars became common, preserving the shape of an older business district among the township's residential sections.
Kings Highway runs through Haddonfield's historic downtown, where the Indian King Tavern connects the borough to the founding of New Jersey. The state legislature met in the tavern during 1777, adopting the Great Seal and changing New Jersey's official designation from colony to state during the Revolutionary War.
Hi-Nella fits residential streets and apartment communities into less than a quarter of a square mile. Signey Run marks part of its western landscape, while the Dobbs Farm property is a reminder of the agricultural land that preceded the surrounding suburban development.
Laurel Springs grew beside the Timber Creek mill community known as Laurel Mills, named for the laurel around its lake. A later railroad-era chapter brought Samuel Cord's housing development and stone mansion; the house at Atlantic and Tomlinson Avenues became Borough Hall after the municipality acquired it during the Depression.
Lawnside's history began as a free African American settlement and continued with its incorporation as a self-governing borough in 1926. The 1845 Peter Mott House gives that story a physical home: the preserved residence is now a museum interpreting Mott's life, the community and its connections to the Underground Railroad.
Kirkwood, Lucaston, Laurel Mills and Garden Lake are among the older sections that make up Lindenwold. These earlier settlements retain their own names within the borough, whose German-derived name means 'linden woods' and was chosen by a resident during the community's development.
Magnolia's roughly square-mile footprint grew from land held by generations of the Albertson family. That family history remains part of the borough's landscape: engineer John J. Albertson left land opposite Borough Hall for the park bearing his name, linking a present-day gathering place to the town's earlier farms.
Merchantville's former train station remains a landmark at the center of town, now used for a café and art activities. Nearby, the old rail corridor has become the Merchantville Mile walking path, threading a borough whose Victorian houses and historic storefronts reflect its nineteenth-century development.
The meeting of Kings Highway and the Black Horse Pike is central to Mount Ephraim's story. Ephraim Albertson's Public House stood at that crossroads in the early nineteenth century, and the borough still identifies itself as the 'Village at the Crossroads,' with its municipal offices on the pike.
Newton Lake gives Oaklyn a waterside setting shared with Collingswood and Haddon Township. The borough's neighborhood streets lead toward a small West Clinton Avenue gathering area, where municipal events close several blocks to traffic; the lake and that local center make two distinct focal points within the town.
Pennsauken has two different river edges: the Delaware waterfront to the west and the Cooper River rowing course to the east. Between them, the township combines residential neighborhoods with a substantial industrial presence, so its identity includes both the river landscape and the workplaces woven into the community.
Pine Hill (including the former Pine Valley Borough)
Pine Hill takes its name from the pine trees and hills that distinguish its landscape; earlier names included Mount Ararat and Clementon Heights. The nineteenth-century Tomlinson House on Blackwood-Clementon Road is a surviving local landmark, and the borough now includes the former Pine Valley municipality following their 2022 consolidation.
Timber Creek and its tributaries form Runnemede's western edge, while Irish Hill rises above the lower creek ground. The Black Horse Pike crosses the middle of the borough, but the creekside lake and older residential streets reveal a different side of this early suburban community.
Somerdale combines older suburban streets with a newer center built from the former Lion's Head Shopping Plaza. Its redevelopment as CooperTowne brought storefronts designed to resemble smaller main-street buildings, with Gateway Village townhouses connecting the center to surrounding residential streets.
Stratford began as an 1880s development named for Stratford-upon-Avon, and its older civic center remains along Union Avenue. The public library there grew from a PTA effort in 1921; nearby, the former Tomlinson mansion on Laurel Road tells a separate story as a home later adapted for institutional uses.
Tavistock is a small borough adjoining Barrington, Haddonfield and Lawnside, with a landscape closely tied to Tavistock Country Club. Its unusual municipal origin grew from members' wish to play golf on Sundays, and the club remains the borough's polling place as well as a local landmark.
Kirkwood Lake and the historic Stafford Farm property show two older layers of Voorhees beneath its suburban development. A former ice company was based at the lake, while the farm's preservation set aside both open land and working acreage, keeping an agricultural thread within the township.
Waterford Township extends from Atco into a much larger Pinelands landscape, including part of Wharton State Forest. The township lies within the Mullica River basin, with settled areas giving way to woods and stream corridors; its eastern forest lands make it a different setting from Camden County's riverfront suburbs.
Winslow covers a broad stretch of Camden County, bringing suburban neighborhoods and older Pinelands villages into one township. Blue Anchor, Elm, Tansboro, Waterford Works and Winslow remain distinct settlements within its Pinelands portion, preserving local village identities across the larger municipality.
Woodlynne's small street grid sits beside the North Branch of Newton Creek. At its center, a WPA-era log cabin built for scouting is an unusual landmark in such an urban setting, preserving a piece of the borough's community history within the surrounding residential blocks.