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Bridgeton
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city in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Cumberland
- Incorporated
- March 1, 1865
- Named after
- Bridge on Cohansey River
- Type
- Faulkner Act (mayor–council)
- Body
- City Council
- Mayor
- Albert B. Kelly (term ends December 31, 2026)
- Administrator
- Kevin C. Rabago Sr.
- Municipal clerk
- Nichole L. Almanza
- Total
- 6.49 sq mi (16.82 km )
- Land
- 6.23 sq mi (16.13 km )
- Water
- 0.27 sq mi (0.69 km ) 4.10%
- Rank
- 249th of 565 in state, 13th of 14 in county
- Elevation
- 39 ft (12 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 26,763
- Density
- 4,377.5/sq mi (1,690.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bridgeton is a city in Cumberland County, within the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the county seat of Cumberland County and is located on the Cohansey River near Delaware Bay in the South Jersey region of the state.
As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 27,263, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 1,914 (+7.6%) from the 25,349 recorded at the 2010 census, which in turn reflected an increase of 2,578 (+11.3%) from the 22,771 counted in the 2000 census. Bridgeton and Vineland are the two principal cities of the Vineland-Bridgeton metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses those cities and all of Cumberland County for statistical purposes and which constitutes a part of the Delaware Valley (i.e. the Philadelphia metro area).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bridgeton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.