Camden County, New Jersey

administration
US Post Office and Camden County Courthouse
US state :	New Jersey
Administrative headquarters :	Camden City
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 520 Market Street, 16th Floor Camden, NJ 08102-1300
Foundation :	1844
Made up from:	Gloucester County
Area code :	+1 856
Demographics
Residents :	513,657 (2010)
Population density :	893.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	589 km²
Water surface :	14 km²
map

The Camden County is a County US state of New Jersey . At the 2010 census , the county had 513,657 residents and a population density of 885.1 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Camden City .

The Camden County is part of the Delaware Valley called metropolitan area around the city of Philadelphia .

geography

The county is located in southern New Jersey and is separated from the city of Philadelphia in the neighboring state of Pennsylvania to the west by the Delaware River . It has an area of 589 square kilometers, of which 14 square kilometers are water. The following counties border Camden County:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania		Burlington County

Gloucester County		Atlantic County

history

Earl Camden

Camden County was formed on March 13, 1844 from former parts of Gloucester County. It was named after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714–1794), Lord Chancellor of England from 1766 to 1770 .

Two places in the county have National Historic Landmark status , the Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site paleontological site and the Walt Whitman House . A total of 90 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 16, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	25,422	-
1860	34,457	35.5%
1870	46.193	34.1%
1880	62,942	36.3%
1890	87,687	39.3%
1900	107,643	22.8%
1910	142.029	31.9%
1920	190.508	34.1%
1930	252,312	32.4%
1940	255.727	1.4%
1950	300,743	17.6%
1960	392.035	30.4%
1970	456.291	16.4%
1980	471,650	3.4%
1990	502.824	6.6%
2000	508.932	1.2%
2010	513,657	0.9%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

The Big Timber Creek

According to the 2010 census , Camden County had 513,657 people in 192,095 households. The population density was 885.1 people per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 65.3 percent white, 19.6 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 5.1 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 14.2 percent of the population.

Statistically, 2.64 people lived in the 192,095 households.

24.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.8 percent were 65 years or older. 51.8 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 60,445 USD . The per capita income was $ 29,112. 11.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.