Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Camden
- Incorporated
- April 20, 1926
- Type
- Borough
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- Mary Ann Wardlow ( D , term ends December 31, 2026)
- Administrator
- Angelique Rankins
- Municipal clerk
- Marsharee Wright (acting)
- Total
- 1.43 sq mi (3.70 km )
- Land
- 1.43 sq mi (3.70 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km ) 0.00%
- Rank
- 459th of 565 in state, 25th of 37 in county
- Elevation
- 85 ft (26 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 3,301
- Density
- 2,065.8/sq mi (797.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- borough of New Jersey
- Official name
- Lawnside
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Camden County
- Population
- 2955
- Area
- 3.646997
- Elevation
- 85
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Barrington
- Official website
- www.lawnside.net
- Image
- Mount Peace Cemetery and Funeral Directing Company Cemetery 2012-10-20 12-19-16.jpg
- Households
- 1178
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- postal code
- 08045
- Commons category
- Lawnside, New Jersey
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 39113
- date of incorporation
- 1926-04-20
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Encyclopedic overview
Lawnside is a borough in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Lawnside was developed in 1840 and incorporated in 1926 as the first independent, self-governing Black municipality north of the Mason–Dixon line. As of the 2020 United States census, approximately 75% of the borough's 2,955 population still identified as Black or African American, although this percentage has declined over the past two census periods. The population in 2020 had increased by 10 (+0.3%) from the 2010 census count of 2,945,
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lawnside” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.