Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey
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Lawrence Township is a township in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located at the cross-roads between the Delaware Valley region to the southwest and the Raritan Valley region to the northeast, the township is an outer-ring suburb of New York City in the New York Metropolitan area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau,[19][20] while also directly bordering the Philadelphia metropolitan area and is part of the Federal Communications Commission's Philadelphia Designated Market Area.[21]
Lawrence Township, New Jersey | |
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Bristol Myers Squibb Headquarters Presbyterian Church of Lawrence, located in the town's main Historic district | |
Nickname: "Where Nature Smiles for 22 Miles"[1] | |
Coordinates: 40.295887°N 74.720093°W / 40.295887; -74.720093[2][3] | |
Country | United States |
State | New Jersey |
County | Mercer |
Formed | February 20, 1697 as Maidenhead Township |
Incorporated | February 21, 1798 |
Renamed | January 24, 1816 as Lawrence Township |
Named for | Capt. James Lawrence |
Government | |
• Type | Faulkner Act (council–manager) |
• Body | Township Council |
• Mayor | John T. Ryan (D, term ends December 31, 2023)[5][6] |
• Administrator | Kevin P. Nerwinski[7] |
• Municipal clerk | Tonya Carter[8] |
Area | |
• Total | 21.98 sq mi (56.94 km2) |
• Land | 21.73 sq mi (56.27 km2) |
• Water | 0.26 sq mi (0.67 km2) 1.17% |
• Rank | 126th of 565 in state 4th of 12 in county[2] |
Elevation | 82 ft (25 m) |
Population | |
• Total | 33,077 |
• Estimate | 31,808 |
• Rank | 70th of 565 in state 4th of 12 in county[13] |
• Density | 1,522.5/sq mi (587.8/km2) |
• Rank | 333rd of 565 in state 9th of 12 in county[13] |
Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
ZIP Code | 08648[14] |
Area code | 609[15] |
FIPS code | 3402139510[2][16][17] |
GNIS feature ID | 0882126[2][18] |
Website | www |
The home of the prestigious Lawrenceville School, Rider University, and the site of the Quaker Bridge Mall, the township is a regional commercial and cultural hub of central New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 33,077,[10][11] a decrease of 395 (−1.2%) from the 2010 census count of 33,472,[22][23] which in turn reflected an increase of 4,313 (+14.8%) from the 29,159 counted in the 2000 census.[24]