Camden County · ~78,988 residents
78,988
Residents
6
Legislative district
3
Legislators
1
Abortion facility
Cherry Hill is the largest municipality in Camden County and, on the Census Bureau's estimates, the fastest growing of New Jersey's fifty largest — from 74,543 residents in 2020 to 78,988 in 2024.
Camden County holds Lawnside, the only African-American community ever incorporated as a municipality in this state. It began as Snow Hill, a settlement of free and self-freed Black families, and it was a station on the Underground Railroad; the Reverend Peter Mott built a house there in 1845 and used it to shelter people escaping slavery. What they were escaping, New Jersey was still practising. This was the last northern state to free its slaves — no living person freed in 1804, the remaining enslaved renamed "apprentices" in 1846, eighteen still held in 1860.
Snow Hill, later Free Haven and now Lawnside, was a settlement of free and self-freed Black families and a station on the Underground Railroad. The Rev. Peter Mott built his house here in 1845 and used it to shelter people escaping slavery; it still stands as the oldest house in Lawnside and is now an Underground Railroad museum. Lawnside remains the only African-American community ever incorporated as a municipality in this state.
Source: Peter Mott House Underground Railroad Museum; Lawnside Historical Society
Abortion reporting to the CDC is voluntary, and New Jersey is one of four jurisdictions that declines. Its own Department of Health publishes no count of induced terminations, by county or statewide. The state that wrote abortion access into its statutes does not record how often it happens.
There is no figure for Cherry Hill, or for Camden County, because there is no figure for anywhere in New Jersey. The best available independent estimate is 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians statewide in 2025.
Sources: CDC, Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2022 (MMWR Surveillance Summaries) · Guttmacher Institute, Monthly Abortion Provision Study
One abortion facility operates in Cherry Hill — an independent clinic on Kings Highway North, not part of the Planned Parenthood network:
Cherry Hill Women's Center
502 Kings Highway North, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
(856) 667-5910
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Cherry Hill is in Legislative District 6. Its senator and two assembly members are below with their recorded FRCA votes.
Cherry Hill Township is in District 6. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this municipality in Trenton.
“No recorded vote” means the member was not serving when the bill was voted on in January 10, 2022. It is not an abstention, and we do not present it as one.
Senate · District 6 · Democrat
Assembly · District 6 · Democrat
Assembly · District 6 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Cherry Hill Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Cherry Hill Township. We read every New Jersey congregation in the directory we work from — 106 of them — and found one in the whole state, in Glassboro. Abolitionists Rising, the movement's own national organisation, lists the same single church on its New Jersey page and no others. That is not a gap in the research. It is the situation.
If your church has taken a public position on abolition — from the pulpit, in a resolution, or in its own published words — tell us and we will verify it and list it here.
Cherry Hill is in Legislative District 6, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
Lawnside, in the same county, is the only African-American community ever incorporated as a municipality in New Jersey and was a station on the Underground Railroad. The Peter Mott House, built there in 1845 and used to shelter people escaping slavery, is now a museum.
No. No bill of abolition and no equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
