South Harrison Township is a township in Gloucester County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the township's population was 3,162,[8][9][10] reflecting an increase of 745 (+30.8%) from the 2,417 counted in the 2000 census, which had in turn increased by 498 (+26.0%) from the 1,919 counted in the 1990 census.[18]
Township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States
Township in New Jersey
South Harrison Township, New Jersey
Township
Township of South Harrison
South Harrison Township highlighted in Gloucester County. Inset map: Gloucester County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Census Bureau map of South Harrison Township, New Jersey
South Harrison was formed as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 2, 1883, from portions of Harrison Township. Elk Township was formed from portions of South Harrison Township on April 17, 1891.[19] It is a dry town, where alcohol cannot be sold, though alcohol is available at the winery in the township.[20][21]
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 15.96 square miles (41.32km2), including 15.90 square miles (41.17km2) of land and 0.06 square miles (0.15km2) of water (0.38%).[1][2]
Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Cedar Grove, Harrisonville (served as ZIP Code 08039), Jessups Mills and Lincoln.[22]
The 2010 United States census counted 3,162 people, 1,020 households, and 862 families in the township. The population density was 201.7 per square mile (77.9/km2). There were 1,056 housing units at an average density of 67.4 per square mile (26.0/km2). The racial makeup was 91.59% (2,896) White, 5.06% (160) Black or African American, 0.00% (0) Native American, 1.20% (38) Asian, 0.03% (1) Pacific Islander, 0.95% (30) from other races, and 1.17% (37) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.10% (98) of the population.[8]
Of the 1,020 households, 42.1% had children under the age of 18; 73.1% were married couples living together; 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present and 15.5% were non-families. Of all households, 11.5% were made up of individuals and 4.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.10 and the average family size was 3.36.[8]
28.7% of the population were under the age of 18, 6.3% from 18 to 24, 24.0% from 25 to 44, 30.6% from 45 to 64, and 10.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40.4 years. For every 100 females, the population had 95.8 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 97.5 males.[8]
The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $106,667 (with a margin of error of +/− $12,029) and the median family income was $113,875 (+/− $14,397). Males had a median income of $84,408 (+/− $4,334) versus $55,750 (+/− $10,554) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $34,515 (+/− $3,976). About 2.0% of families and 10.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 8.1% of those age 65 or over.[34]
Census 2000
As of the 2000 United States Census[15] there were 2,417 people, 800 households, and 663 families residing in the township. The population density was 153.0 inhabitants per square mile (59.1/km2). There were 829 housing units at an average density of 52.5 per square mile (20.3/km2). The racial makeup of the township was 93.09% White, 3.76% African American, 0.04% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 2.19% from other races, and 0.58% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.43% of the population.[32][33]
There were 800 households, out of which 41.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.9% were married couples living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.1% were non-families. 13.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.94 and the average family size was 3.25.[32][33]
In the township the population was spread out, with 26.9% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 27.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 105.7 males.[32][33]
The median income for a household in the township was $68,491, and the median income for a family was $76,390. Males had a median income of $55,313 versus $32,337 for females. The per capita income for the township was $25,968. About 4.1% of families and 8.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.7% of those under age 18 and 8.0% of those age 65 or over.[32][33]
Government
Local government
South Harrison Township is governed under the Township form of New Jersey municipal government, one of 141 municipalities (of the 565) statewide that use this form, the second-most commonly used form of government in the state.[35] The Township Committee is comprised of five members, who are elected directly by the voters at-large in partisan elections to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year as part of the November general election in a three-year cycle.[3][36] At an annual reorganization meeting, the Township Committee selects one of its members to serve as Mayor and another as Deputy Mayor.[4]
As of 2020[update], members of the South Harrison Township Committee are Mayor Joseph Marino (R, term on committee ends December 31, 2024; term as mayor ends 2022), Deputy Mayor Robert J. Diaz (R, term on committee ends 2023; term as deputy mayor ends 2022), John Horner (R, 2024), Carmen A. Malignaggi (D, 2022) and Robert Schenk (R, 2023).[4][37][38][39][40][41]
In 2007, Charles Tyson was elected Mayor, the first African American to hold the post.[42][43] He was re-elected in 2008.[citation needed] In 2009, however, he declined to seek re-election to a third term, citing the death threats and racist vandalism that had arisen.[43] He had received threatening phone calls and emails, his tires were slashed, and "KKK" was written on a sign on his lawn.[44] A federal indictment has charged a white supremacist from Virginia, Bill White, with "communicating threats in interstate commerce", based on White's emails to Tyson and phone calls to Tyson's wife in 2008.[45][46][47] No arrests have been made, however, in connection with the incidents in 2007,[48] even though the town posted a $24,000 reward.[46]
Federal, state and county representation
South Harrison Township is located in the 2nd Congressional District[49] and is part of New Jersey's 3rd state legislative district.[9][50][51]
For the 2022–2023 session, the 3rd Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Edward Durr (R, Logan Township) and in the General Assembly by Bethanne McCarthy-Patrick (R, Mannington Township) and Beth Sawyer (R, Woolwich Township).[56]
Gloucester County is governed by a board of county commissioners, whose seven members are elected at-large to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis in partisan elections, with either two or three seats coming up for election each year. At a reorganization meeting held each January, the Board selects a Director and a Deputy Director from among its members. As of 2022[update], Gloucester County's Commissioners are
Director Frank J. DiMarco (D, Deptford Township; term as commissioner and as director ends December 31, 2022),[57]
Deputy Director Heather Simmons (D, Glassboro; term as commissioner ends 2023, term as deputy director ends 2022).[58]
Lyman J. Barnes (D, Logan Township; 2023),[59]
Nicholas DeSilvio (R, Franklin Township, 2024)[60]
Denice DiCarlo (D, West Deptford Township; 2022, appointed to serve an unexpired term)[61]
Jim Jefferson (D, Woodbury; 2023),[62] and
Christopher Konawel Jr. (R, Glassboro; 2024).[63][64]
Constitutional officers elected countywide are County Clerk James N. Hogan (D, Franklin Township; five-year term ends 2022),[65][66]
Sheriff Jonathan M. Sammons (R, Elk Township; three-year term ends 2024)[67][68] and
Surrogate Giuseppe "Joe" Chila (D, Woolwich Township; five-year term ends 2022).[69][70][71]
Politics
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 2,146 registered voters in South Harrison, of which 733 (34.2%) were registered as Democrats, 626 (29.2%) were registered as Republicans and 785 (36.6%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 2 voters registered as either Libertarians as Greens.[72]
In the 2012 presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney received 60.9% of the vote (1,008 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 37.8% (625 votes), and other candidates with 1.3% (21 votes), among the 1,666 ballots cast by the township's 2,238 registered voters (12 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 74.4%.[73][74] In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain received 56.2% of the vote (979 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 41.2% (717 votes) and other candidates with 1.9% (33 votes), among the 1,741 ballots cast by the township's 2,168 registered voters, for a turnout of 80.3%.[75] In the 2004 presidential election, Republican George W. Bush received 60.8% of the vote (869 ballots cast), outpolling Democrat John Kerry with 38.3% (548 votes) and other candidates with 0.4% (8 votes), among the 1,429 ballots cast by the township's 1,792 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 79.7.[76]
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 72.6% of the vote (709 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 24.9% (243 votes), and other candidates with 2.6% (25 votes), among the 996 ballots cast by the township's 2,218 registered voters (19 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 44.9%.[77][78] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 58.7% of the vote (666 ballots cast), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 31.4% (356 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 7.8% (89 votes) and other candidates with 0.8% (9 votes), among the 1,134 ballots cast by the township's 2,175 registered voters, yielding a 52.1% turnout.[79]
Education
The South Harrison Township School District serves public school students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade at South Harrison Township Elementary School.[80][81][82] As of the 2020–2021 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 315 students and 32.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.8:1.[83]
Public school students in seventh through twelfth grades are educated by the Kingsway Regional School District, which also serves students from East Greenwich Township, Swedesboro and Woolwich Township, with the addition of students from Logan Township who attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship in which tuition is paid on a per-pupil basis by the Logan Township School District. South Harrison Township accounted for 13% of district enrollment.[84][85] As of the 2020–2021 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 2,868 students and 207.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.8:1.[86] Schools in the district (with 2020–2021 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[87]) are
Kingsway Regional Middle School[88] with 1,023 students in grades 7–8 and
Kingsway Regional High School[89] with 1,802 students in grades 9–12.[90][91] Under a 2011 proposal, Kingsway would have merged with its constituent member's K–6 districts to become a full K–12 district, with various options for including Logan Township as part of the consolidated district.[92]
Students from across the county are eligible to apply to attend Gloucester County Institute of Technology, a four-year high school in Deptford Township that provides technical and vocational education. As a public school, students do not pay tuition to attend the school.[93]
Transportation
Route 45 southbound in South Harrison Township
As of May2010[update], the township had a total of 47.93 miles (77.14km) of roadways, of which 22.43 miles (36.10km) were maintained by the municipality, 21.96 miles (35.34km) by Gloucester County and 3.54 miles (5.70km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.[94]
Route 45 (Woodstown-Mullica Hill Road) traverses the township southwest-to-northeast, from the border with Pilesgrove Township to Harrison Township.[95] County Route 538 (Swedesboro Road) crosses along the northern portion of the township from Woolwich Township in the northwest to Elk Township to the southeast.[96] County Route 581 (Commissioners Pike) crosses from Upper Pittsgrove Township in the south to Harrison Township in the north.[97]
"Obama Signs Order to Fund Abortion Education Abroad; Obama Plan to Close GITMO Sparks Debate", CNN, February 3, 2009. Accessed November 10, 2019. "One year before Barack Obama's historic inauguration, Charles Tyson was making some history of his own. He was quietly sworn in as the first African American mayor of tiny South Harrison, New Jersey, a big moment in a very white small town.... Then things got worse. Bill White, one of the country's most notorious white supremacist, whose Web site once displayed a picture of Barack Obama in the crosshairs allegedly contacted Tyson."
Hefler, Jan. "S. Harrison mayor steps down over racism", The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 7, 2009, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 23, 2009. Accessed October 7, 2015. "Charles Tyson has decided not to serve a third term as mayor of South Harrison Township, saying he and his family have endured death threats and racist vandalism since he became the town's first black mayor two years ago. At a township reorganization meeting on Monday, the 66-year-old Tyson declined a nomination to continue serving as mayor but agreed to be deputy mayor.... No arrests were made, and investigators said the caller or callers in 2007 used untraceable disposable phones."
Plan Components Report, New Jersey Redistricting Commission, December 23, 2011. Accessed February 1, 2020.
Biography of Bob Menendez, United States Senate, January 26, 2015. "Menendez, who started his political career in Union City, moved in September from Paramus to one of Harrison's new apartment buildings near the town's PATH station.."
2009 Governor: Gloucester CountyArchived October 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 31, 2009. Accessed November 8, 2012.
South Harrison Township Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, South Harrison Township School District. Accessed November 1, 2021. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through six in the South Harrison Township School District. Composition: The South Harrison Township School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of South Harrison Township."
Kingsway Regional School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 9, 2020. "Kingsway is situated in a predominately rural/suburban area, with more than 20,000 people residing within its 52 square mile border. The District includes the Borough of Swedesboro and the Townships of South Harrison, East Greenwich, and Woolwich. Though not part of the District, students from Logan Township attend Kingsway High School through a send/receive relationship as paid tuition students."
Student Enrollment, Kingsway Regional School District. Accessed March 9, 2020. "Kingsway Regional is comprised of the Borough of Swedesboro and the Townships of South Harrison, East Greenwich and Woolwich. Though not part of the District, students from Logan Township attend Kingsway Regional High School through a send/receive relationship as paid tuition students.... Percent of students coming from each resident district is as follows: East Greenwich Twp. – 32%, Woolwich Twp. – 33%, South Harrison Twp. – 13%, Swedesboro – 10%, Logan Twp. (High School Only) – 11%"
Forand, Rebecca. "Kingsway districts may see change", Gloucester County Times, April 7, 2011. Accessed December 9, 2014. "A study is being planned to evaluate the fiscal feasibility of the regionalization of the school districts associated with the Kingsway Regional district, and the impact of continuing or severing the current relationship the district has with Logan Township. Woolwich township, Swedesboro, East Greenwich Township and South Harrison Township all currently feed their elementary students to the Kingsway Regional district for middle and high school, with Logan Township sending students to the high school on a tuition basis. The study will address the fiscal feasibility of regionalizing Kingsway, East Greenwich, South Harrison and Swedesboro-Woolwich."
Admissions, Gloucester County Institute of Technology. Accessed November 7, 2019. "There is no charge to attend. GCIT is a public school.... GCIT is the vocational-technical school for Gloucester County residents. You must live in Gloucester County to apply and attend."
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