Mercer County · ~93,911 residents
93,911
Residents
14
Legislative district
3
Legislators
1
Abortion facility
Hamilton Township sits in Mercer County, next to Trenton and the State House. Note the name: there is another Hamilton Township in Atlantic County, and the abortion facility here is addressed to "Hamilton Square", a neighbourhood rather than a municipality. New Jersey is full of that kind of thing, and it is why every facility on this site is located by coordinates rather than by the city printed on its mail.
Mercer County was created in 1838, taking Trenton from Hunterdon. Twenty-two years later the 1860 federal census still recorded an enslaved person living in Lawrence Township, in this county — fifty-six years after New Jersey passed the act that was supposed to end slavery. The 1804 act freed no one living. The 1846 act that followed did not free the rest; it renamed them "apprentices" bound to their present owners. That is what a law looks like when it is written to be passed rather than to work.
The 1860 federal census, taken on the eve of the Civil War, still recorded an enslaved person living in Lawrence Township. Fifty-six years had passed since New Jersey began abolishing slavery. Mercer County itself was created in 1838, taking Trenton from Hunterdon County and making the state capital its seat.
Source: Rider University, A Historical Timeline of Slavery in New Jersey; New Jersey State Archives
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 Hamilton, or for Mercer 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 Hamilton Township — a Planned Parenthood health centre on Route 33, addressed to Hamilton Square:
Planned Parenthood — Hamilton Health Center
2279 State Highway 33, Hamilton Square, NJ 08690
(833) 377-8474
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Hamilton is in Legislative District 14. Its senator and two assembly members are below with their recorded votes on the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act, which was passed a few miles away in Trenton.
Hamilton Township is in District 14. 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 14 · Democrat
Assembly · District 14 · Democrat
Assembly · District 14 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Hamilton Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Hamilton 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.
Hamilton Township, Mercer County is in Legislative District 14, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
Both, in a sense. Hamilton Square is a neighbourhood inside Hamilton Township, not a municipality of its own. The facility is in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, in Legislative District 14.
No. Neither a bill of abolition nor an equal-protection bill has been introduced, including by the legislators who sit a few miles from here.
