Willingboro Township, New Jersey
Willingboro Township, New Jersey | |
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Tempest Lane, a typical residential street in Willingboro | |
| 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 | |
Location in Burlington County Location in New Jersey | |
| Coordinates: 40°01′41″N 74°53′13″W / 40.02795°N 74.886984°W | |
| 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 after | Wellingborough |
| Government | |
| • Type | Faulkner Act (council–manager) |
| • Body | Township Council |
| • Mayor | Kaya McIntosh (D, term ends December 31, 2027) |
| • Manager | Dwayne M. Harris |
| • Municipal clerk | Everett Falt, MPA, RMC, CMC |
| 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 |
| Elevation | 30 ft (9 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 31,889 |
• Estimate (2023) | 32,122 |
| • Rank | 73rd of 565 in state 3rd of 40 in county |
| • Density | 4,128.0/sq mi (1,593.8/km2) |
| • Rank | 151st of 565 in state 6th of 40 in county |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
| ZIP Code | 08046 |
| Area code(s) | 609 and 856 |
| FIPS code | 3400581440 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0882099 |
| 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.
As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 31,889, an increase of 260 (+0.8%) from the 2010 census count of 31,629, which in turn reflected a decline of 1,379 (−4.2%) from the 33,008 counted in the 2000 census.
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.
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. Willingboro later became a predominantly African American suburb.