Somers Point
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city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Atlantic
- Incorporated
- April 24, 1886 (as Borough)
- Reincorporated
- April 2, 1890
- Type
- City
- Body
- City Council
- Mayor
- Dennis Tapp ( R , term ends December 31, 2027)
- Administrator
- Jason Frost
- Municipal clerk
- Lucy R. Samuelsen
- Total
- 5.23 sq mi (13.55 km )
- Land
- 4.01 sq mi (10.39 km )
- Water
- 1.22 sq mi (3.17 km ) 23.37%
- Rank
- 270th of 565 in state, 18th of 23 in county
- Elevation
- 16 ft (4.9 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 10,465
- Density
- 2,610.7/sq mi (1,008.0/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Somers Point
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Atlantic County
- Population
- 10469
- Area
- 13.360897
- Elevation
- 4
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Egg Harbor Township
- Official website
- www.somerspointgov.org
- Image
- Bay Front Historic District-01.jpg
- Households
- 4343
- Dialing code
- 609
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- Commons category
- Somers Point, New Jersey
- postal code
- 08244
- inception
- 1693-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 21.8833
- per capita income
- 35361
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Encyclopedic overview
Somers Point is a city situated on the Jersey Shore that is the oldest settlement in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was settled by Europeans in 1693 and was incorporated as a borough in 1886. Somers Point was incorporated as a city in 1902. The city is located in eastern Atlantic County, southwest of Atlantic City, in the South Jersey region of the state.
As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 10,469, a decrease of 326 (−3.0%) from the 2010 census count of 10,795, which in turn reflected a decline of 819 (−7.1%) from the 11,614 counted in the 2000 census. Somers Point and all of Atlantic County lie within the Atlantic City-Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which in turn constitutes part of the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden combined statistical area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Somers Point” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.