Municipal · New Jersey

Borough of Lawnside

Lawnside is a borough in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Lawnside was developed in 1840 and incorporated in 1926 as the first independent, self-governing Black municipality north of the Mason–Dixon line. As of the 2020 United States census, approximately 75% of the borough's 2,955 population still identified as Black or African American, although this percentage has declined over the past two census periods. The population in 2020 had increased by 10 (+0.3%) from the 2010 census count of 2,945,

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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 170151
FIPS state: 34
FIPS county: 007
FIPS place: 39420
Census record name: BOROUGH OF LAWNSIDE
Mailing address: 4 E DOUGLAS AVE, LAWNSIDE 08045