page_title: Lower Township, New Jersey
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Lower Township, New Jersey / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Sunset at Sunset Beach in Cape May, NJ
context_page_description: Lower Township is a township in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 22,866, reflecting a decrease of 79 from the 22,945 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 2,125 from the 20,820 counted in the 1990 Census.
  New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Lower Township as its 34th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.
context_section_description: According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 31.06 square miles (80.45 km²), including 27.38 square miles (70.91 km²) of land and 3.69 square miles (9.54 km²) of water (11.86%).
  Diamond Beach (2010 Census population of 136), Erma (2,134), North Cape May (3,226) and Villas (9,483) are unincorporated communities and census-designated places (CDPs) located within Lower Township. Other unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Bennett, Cold Spring, Cold Spring Inlet, Ephraims Island, Fishing Creek, Higbees Landing, Miami Beach, Schellingers Landing, Sewells Point, South Cape May, Sunset Beach, Town Bank, Weers Landing, and Wildwood Gables.
  Lower Township borders the Cape May County municipalities of Cape May City, Cape May Point Borough, Middle Township, West Cape May Borough, Wildwood City, Wildwood Crest Borough, as well as Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
caption: Sunset at Sunset Beach, in Lower Township
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