Penns Grove
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borough in Salem County, New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Salem
- Incorporated
- March 8, 1894
- Named after
- William Penn
- Type
- Borough
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- LaDaena D. Thomas ( D , term ends December 31, 2023)
- Administrator
- Robert Tarver (interim)
- Municipal clerk
- Sharon R. Williams
- Total
- 0.89 sq mi (2.31 km )
- Land
- 0.89 sq mi (2.31 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km ) 0.00%
- Rank
- 517th of 565 in state, 15th of 15 in county
- Elevation
- 7 ft (2.1 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 4,865
- Density
- 5,418.8/sq mi (2,092.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- borough of New Jersey
- Official name
- Penns Grove
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Salem County
- Population
- 4837
- Area
- 2.361074
- Elevation
- 3
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Carneys Point Township
- Official website
- pennsgrove-nj.org
- Image
- Our Merciful Saviour Penns Grove NJ.jpg
- Households
- 1667
- Dialing code
- 856
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- Commons category
- Penns Grove, New Jersey
- postal code
- 08069
- inception
- 1894-03-08
- water as percent of area
- 0.1759
- per capita income
- 17241
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Encyclopedic overview
Penns Grove is a borough in Salem County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 4,837, a decrease of 310 (−6.0%) from the 2010 census count of 5,147, which in turn reflected an increase of 261 (+5.3%) from the 4,886 counted in the 2000 census.
Penns Grove had the fourth-highest property tax rate in New Jersey, with an equalized rate of 5.556% in 2020, compared to 3.476% in Salem County and a statewide average of 2.279%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Penns Grove” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.