Pennington
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borough in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Mercer
- Incorporated
- January 31, 1890
- Type
- Borough
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- James Davy ( D , term ends December 31, 2023)
- Administrator
- Donato Nieman (interim)
- Municipal clerk
- Elizabeth Sterling
- Total
- 0.97 sq mi (2.50 km )
- Land
- 0.96 sq mi (2.49 km )
- Water
- 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km ) 0.31%
- Rank
- 506th of 565 in state, 11th of 12 in county
- Elevation
- 210 ft (64 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 2,840
- Density
- 2,916/sq mi (1,126/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
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Encyclopedic overview
Pennington is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough is located at the cross-roads between the Delaware Valley region to the southwest and the Raritan Valley region to the northeast. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 2,802, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 217 (+8.4%) from the 2010 census count of 2,585, which in turn had reflected a decline of 111 (−4.1%) from the 2,696 counted in the 2000 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pennington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.