Mount Laurel is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, home to about 46,026 people across 22 square miles. Its ZIP code is 08054.
Homes sold for a median of $249 per square foot in the three months ending August 2026, a seller’s market.
Each card is that ZIP code’s whole market, including any part outside Mount Laurel. Seller’s market: under 4 months of supply; buyer’s market: over 6. Methodology
Mount Laurel was part of Evesham Township until March 7, 1872, when the state legislature incorporated it as a separate township. It took its name from a local hill covered in laurel. For most of its history it was farm country, and its oldest civic building reflects that: Farmer's Hall, a plain two-story Greek Revival hall dated 1866, was built by the Progressive Farmers' Club of Burlington County for crop and poultry shows and cooperative buying. It was given to the township in 1904 and served as town hall until 1969, was nearly torn down in 1975, and is now leased by the Historical Society of Mount Laurel.
The township's history also runs through the Revolution, when British troops under Gen. Henry Clinton crossed the Evesham area in 1778 on their withdrawal from Philadelphia; a house used as Clinton's headquarters is among Mount Laurel's historic sites. Paulsdale, a farmhouse on Hooton Road built around 1800 and updated with Victorian details in the 1870s, was the childhood home of suffragist Alice Paul, whose parents bought it in 1883.
In the late 1930s about 35 log houses went up at Rancocas Woods on the township's eastern edge, marketed as log cabins in the pines, and in 1948 a resident began a cluster of log-cabin shops there. Suburban growth from Philadelphia arrived in force in the late 1960s and remade the township. Mount Laurel is also the namesake of the Mount Laurel doctrine, the New Jersey Supreme Court's 1975 ruling, reaffirmed in 1983, that towns must use their zoning to give affordable housing a realistic chance.
Most of Mount Laurel's neighborhoods were built after suburban growth reached the township in the late 1960s, and the township grew as a suburb laid out around roads rather than around a traditional downtown. Routes 38 and 73 are the main local corridors, and the New Jersey Turnpike and I-295 both cross the township.
Several named places serve as everyday addresses. Ramblewood is a census-designated community within the township, and Rancocas Woods, near the eastern edge, keeps its late-1930s log houses. Other place names still on the map include Fellowship, Masonville, Hartford, Centerton, Birchfield, Heulings Hill, Colemantown and Coxs Corner. Older farmhouses survive in pockets, such as Paulsdale on Hooton Road and the area around Farmer's Hall near the meeting of the Hainesport-Mount Laurel and Moorestown-Mount Laurel roads.
Laurel Acres Park is the main community park, and part of Rancocas State Park lies inside the township's borders. Mount Laurel Schools serves pre-K through eighth grade, and high school students attend the Lenape Regional High School District.
Mount Laurel has unusually direct highway access. The New Jersey Turnpike runs about 7.5 miles through the township, with Exit 4 feeding Route 73 and the James Fenimore Cooper service area on the northbound side. I-295 has three exits in town: Exit 36 for Route 73, Exit 40 for Route 38, and Exit 43 for Rancocas Woods and Delran. Routes 38 and 73 and County Route 537 handle most local travel.
There is no rail station in the township. NJ Transit buses link it to the region: Route 317 runs between Asbury Park and Philadelphia through Burlington County, Route 413 connects Camden with Mount Holly and points north, and Route 457 runs from the Moorestown Mall through Cherry Hill and Haddonfield to Camden, with select early and late Route 407 trips also passing through. Camden's Walter Rand Transportation Center connects to the PATCO Speedline into Center City Philadelphia, and NJ Transit's Atlantic City Line stops at Cherry Hill, the closest station to the south, with trains to Philadelphia's 30th Street Station.
With no rail station and a road network built around highways, most daily trips are made by car.
Laurel Acres Park is the township's gathering place. It has a veterans memorial, a fishing lake, a playground and a grassy hill used for concerts and winter sledding, and its fields host local baseball and soccer leagues. The township also has two dog parks, and the southwestern part of Rancocas State Park lies within its borders.
Paulsdale, at 128 Hooton Road, is a stop on New Jersey's Women's Heritage Trail. The Alice Paul Institute, now the Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice, keeps the house and 6.5 acres for education programs and opens it to the public for events such as its annual Women's Equality Day commemoration in August. Farmer's Hall, the restored 1866 former town hall, is the home base of the Historical Society of Mount Laurel.
The Mount Laurel Library at 100 Walt Whitman Avenue is open seven days a week and offers museum passes, study rooms, a Library of Things, more than 100 book-club kits and a steady calendar of storytimes, film screenings, game nights, chess and craft groups. As of 2026 the township's Mount Laurel Day celebration was held in October.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)19 miles away |
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| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Philadelphia, PA13 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Mount Laurel; driving is longer.
Source: Airports from OurAirports (scheduled passenger service); city centers and populations from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: Members of Congress from the congress-legislators project; districts from the Census Bureau’s relationship files; governor and mayor from Wikidata.
Mount Laurel had 44,633 residents in the 2020 census, up 11% since 2000.
It’s the 47th largest of 565 towns in New Jersey by population.
Burlington County grew from 58,241 residents in 1900 to 461,860 in 2020.
Burlington County, 1900–2020
Source: U.S. Census Bureau decennial censuses (counties 1900–1990 from the Bureau’s historical county file).
Average highs peak around 87°F in summer, and winter lows average 25°F. About 42.9 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Mt Holly S Jersey Ap, NJ weather station (3 miles away).
199,706 jobs at 10,703 businesses in Burlington County. The biggest industries by employees:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023 (private employers; jobs counted where people work).
622 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Mount Laurel.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 30 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 137 |
| Dentists | 34 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 93 |
| Mental health providers | 219 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 88 |
| Optometrists | 7 |
| Chiropractors | 14 |
| Pharmacies | 22 |
Source: Hospitals from CMS Hospital General Information (ratings are CMS overall star ratings); straight-line distances; providers from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), by practice address and primary specialty.
Parks (23 nearby)
Grocery stores (4 nearby)
Pharmacies (2 nearby)
Libraries (3 nearby)
Museums (1 nearby)
Theaters and performance venues (1 nearby)
Counts are within about 3 miles of the center of town.
Source: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright), as mapped by volunteers; it can miss places or include closed ones.
Established in 1872.
Colleges and universities
Notable people born here
Source: Wikidata (wikidata.org), the free knowledge base; people are listed by place of birth.
Public schools here are run by Mount Laurel Township School District, Burlington County Special Services School District. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
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| Countryside Elementary SchoolMount Laurel | Pre-K–4 | 293 | Public | 4.0 mi |
| Fleetwood Elementary SchoolMount Laurel | Pre-K–4 | 404 | Public | 3.1 mi |
| Hillside Elementary SchoolMount Laurel | Pre-K–4 | 386 | Public | 1.1 mi |
| Larchmont Elementary SchoolMount Laurel | Pre-K–4 | 370 | Public | 1.9 mi |
| Parkway Elementary SchoolMount Laurel | Pre-K–4 | 366 | Public | 2.5 mi |
| Springville Elementary SchoolMt Laurel | Pre-K–4 | 480 | Public | 2.0 mi |
| Hartford Upper Elementary SchoolMount Laurel | 5–6 | 926 | Public | 1.6 mi |
| Burlington County Alternative High SchoolMt. Laurel | 6–12 | 71 | Alternative Education | 1.7 mi |
| T. E. Harrington Middle SchoolMount Laurel | 7–8 | 948 | Public | 1.3 mi |
| School | Grades | Students | Affiliation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creme De Le CremeMount Laurel | Pre-K–K | 26 | Nonsectarian | 0.8 mi |
| The Schoolhouse Nursery School and KindergartenMount Laurel | Pre-K–TK | 6 | Nonsectarian | 2.0 mi |
| Bancroft SchoolMount Laurel | Ungraded | 250 | Nonsectarian | 0.7 mi |
| Bancroft School Mount LaurelMount Laurel | Ungraded | 248 | Nonsectarian | 0.7 mi |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, NCES: Common Core of Data (2024-2025) for public schools; Private School Universe Survey (2023-2024) for private schools. Listed by address; we don’t rate schools.
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