Cherry Hill is a township within Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States Census, the township had a population of 74,553, reflecting an increase of 3,508 (+1.04%) from the 71,045 counted in the 2010 Census, which had in turn increased by 1,080 (+1.01%) from the 69,965 counted in the 2000 Census. As of 2020, the township was the state’s 12th most populous municipality and the largest in Camden County, after having been the state’s 13th most populous municipality in the 2000 Census. Cherry Hill is a suburb of Philadelphia and with the decline of downtown Camden has become an edge city and one of the region’s main commercial centers. Cherry Hill is situated on the Delaware Valley coastal plain, approximately eight miles southeast of Center City, Philadelphia.incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1, 1899, from portions of Waterford Township. Portions of the township were taken on March 8, 1924, to form Gibbsboro.

The township is named for Foster McGowan Voorhees, the Governor of New Jersey who authorized its creation.