Voorhees Township, NJ 08043: Costs, Commute, and Who It Fits

Where Voorhees Is and What 08043 Covers

The ZIP code and the township are not the same boundary. 08043 extends into parts of Gibbsboro and Evesham Township and includes the unincorporated area known as Echelon, and it sits entirely within Camden County. If a listing or a school-zone search uses the ZIP rather than the township name, it may not describe the same boundary the township government uses for taxes, elections, or municipal services.

Camden County’s regional healthcare cluster and the township’s own municipal offices sit inside the former Echelon Mall property, discussed further down this page.

Is 08043 all one town?
No. It covers most of Voorhees Township plus parts of Gibbsboro and Evesham Township, and the Echelon area. Confirm which municipality a specific address falls in before assuming township tax rates or school assignments apply.

What Homes and Rentals Cost

Two widely used estimators diverge on Voorhees home values, which is itself useful to know before trusting either one on its own: Redfin put the ZIP’s median sale price at $475,000 in February 2026, up 15.3% year over year, at $230 per square foot, while Zillow‘s home value index for the same ZIP reads $547,199, up 9.4% year over year, for the same period. The gap reflects different methods: Redfin’s figure is a median of actual closed sales; Zillow’s is a modeled estimate across the whole housing stock. Treat $475,000 to $550,000 as a working range instead of a single number.

Renters get comparatively little coverage from most sources on this town, because three of the four most commonly found guides are written by or for home sellers. Rentcast’s July 2025 data for Voorhees Township put median rent at $1,530 for a studio, $1,680 for one bedroom, $2,020 for two bedrooms, $2,970 for three bedrooms, and $3,640 for four bedrooms.

The rent figures under $2,000 apply mostly to one-bedroom units; family-sized rentals in Voorhees run close to a mortgage payment on a starter home in cheaper parts of South Jersey, which matters if the real decision is buy-versus-rent rather than Voorhees-versus-elsewhere.

Property Taxes, by the Numbers

The New Jersey Division of Taxation’s 2025 general tax rates list Voorhees Township at a 2.574 general rate and a 2.765 effective rate. The effective rate is the one comparable across towns, since it’s adjusted to reflect full market value regardless of each town’s own assessment ratio. On a $475,000 home, that works out to roughly $13,130 a year, about $1,094 a month.

That rate looks lower than some older figures circulating for Voorhees because the township underwent a countywide-ordered revaluation for the 2025 tax year: the Camden County Board of Taxation required every property to be reassessed to current market value, which resets the rate downward even when total tax collected stays about the same — the township’s notice describes the process as revenue-neutral.

For comparison, the same 2025 state data puts neighboring Cherry Hill Township’s effective rate at 2.598% and Evesham Township, home to Marlton, at 2.288% — meaningful gaps on identical home values.

A $475,000 home costs about $2,260 more per year in Voorhees than the identical home in Marlton, and about $790 more than in Cherry Hill — differences worth running against a specific mortgage quote before assuming any of them are close enough to ignore.

How much more property tax does a $475,000 home pay in Voorhees than in Marlton?
About $2,260 a year, based on the 2025 effective rates the state publishes for each town: 2.765% in Voorhees versus 2.288% in Evesham Township.

Getting to Philadelphia: PATCO and Driving

PATCO’s Speedline runs from Voorhees Township’s own station as well as the neighboring Ashland and Lindenwold stations, straight into Center City Philadelphia. Per PATCO’s timetable effective December 1, 2025, the one-way fare from Ashland, Lindenwold, or Woodcrest to any Philadelphia station is $3.00 ($6.00 round trip); a scheduled weekday morning train covers Ashland to 15th/16th & Locust in about 26 minutes.

Frequency changes sharply by time of day. During the weekday 6:30 to 9:00 a.m. peak, trains leave roughly every 6 to 9 minutes; midday service drops to about every 15 minutes; after 8 p.m. it thins further to roughly every 15 to 20 minutes. Stations close entirely from midnight to 4:30 a.m. on weeknights, so a late shift or a last train home after a Philadelphia event isn’t always guaranteed the way it would be on a 24-hour system.

Driving to Center City runs about 20 to 25 minutes without traffic via Route 42 and the Ben Franklin or Walt Whitman Bridge, both of which carry their own toll. Specific bridge-toll and Philadelphia parking figures were not independently verified for this page; treat any specific number found elsewhere for those two items as needing its own confirmation before budgeting around it.

How often do PATCO trains run from Ashland?
About every 6 to 9 minutes during the weekday morning peak, thinning to roughly every 15 minutes midday and about every 15 to 20 minutes after 8 p.m., per PATCO’s December 2025 timetable.

Schools

Voorhees Township runs its own K to 8 district; high schoolers attend Eastern Regional High School as part of the Eastern Camden County Regional School District, which also serves Berlin Borough and Gibbsboro. These figures come from the state performance report itself — the New Jersey Department of Education’s 2023-24 School Performance Report — rather than a third-party letter grade.

Eastern Regional’s students met or exceeded expectations on the state English assessment at a 67.1% rate, against a 52.2% statewide rate; on math, the school’s rate was 49.1% against a 40.2% state rate. The four-year graduation rate was 94.4%, versus 91.3% statewide. Average SAT scores ran well above the state average on both sections: 585 on Reading/Writing against a 530 state average, and 571 on Math against a 519 state average.

Not every metric favors the school: chronic absenteeism was 16.9% in 2023-24, above the 14.9% statewide average, and the report notes the school was required to file a corrective action plan as a result. That’s a real, disclosed limitation the “highly rated schools” framing common on real-estate sites tends not to mention.

Crime and Safety

Two independent compilations of FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data give a consistent overall picture — low violent crime, closer-to-typical property crime — while disagreeing somewhat on the exact rate, worth knowing rather than hiding. OpenCrime’s three-year window, 2020 to 2024, puts Voorhees Township’s violent crime rate at 78.4 per 100,000 residents, against a national average of 359.1. NeighborhoodScout’s single-year 2024 FBI data, released October 2025, shows a somewhat different violent-crime reading and a property crime rate of about 16 per 1,000 residents, which it characterizes as above the national average for property crime specifically.

Both sources agree that violent crime runs well below national norms and that property crime is the category worth more attention — a distinction neither of the two real-estate guides analyzed for this page makes, since neither publishes crime data at all.

Is Voorhees safe?
Violent crime runs well below the national average by both FBI-based compilations checked here. Property crime runs above the national average, which is the category to plan around.

Neighborhoods

Voorhees is subdivided into named developments and condo communities that real-estate sites often describe with specific price bands. Those bands could not be independently verified from a primary source within the scope of this page, and repeating a dollar range sourced only to an agent’s own site would repeat the same unsourced-claim problem flagged above for taxes. What can be said reliably: proximity to a PATCO station commands a premium over areas requiring a longer drive to either stop.

Voorhees Town Center: Where the Redevelopment Stands

The former Echelon Mall — rebranded Voorhees Town Center after a 2007 redevelopment — has been largely closed since a fire damaged the property in 2024. On October 27, 2025, the Voorhees Township Committee unanimously approved a Redevelopment Agreement with Hoboken Brownstone Company for a second redevelopment phase: 317 residential units (207 market-rate townhomes, 50 affordable for-sale townhomes, 60 affordable rental apartments), more than 38,000 square feet of new commercial and entertainment space, and a parking garage with 1,300 to 1,500 spaces.

That agreement is real, but it is not the same as construction starting. Hoboken Brownstone’s purchase of the property from its current owner, Namdar Realty Group, is a separate private transaction that had not closed as of a February 5, 2026 Philadelphia Inquirer report, in which the developer said the more than $250 million plan “isn’t a sure thing.” Construction could begin in early 2027 if the sale goes through. Boscov’s, the mall’s remaining anchor store, sits outside the pending sale and is expected to stay open regardless of how the rest of the site plays out, as does the 22,000-square-foot Voorhees Town Hall inside the same building.

Is the Town Center redevelopment actually happening?
A redevelopment agreement is approved and dated, October 27, 2025, but the underlying property sale between Hoboken Brownstone and Namdar Realty Group was still unfinished as of February 2026, and the developer has publicly said the plan isn’t guaranteed.

Who Voorhees Fits — and Who It Doesn’t

Fits well if you:

• Commute to Philadelphia and want a station-adjacent town without living in the city; Ashland, Woodcrest, and Voorhees Township PATCO stops put a roughly half-hour, $3 ride between you and Center City.
• Value documented school outcomes over an adjective; the K to 8-plus-regional-high-school structure carries state-reported test results above the New Jersey average across several measures.
• Can absorb a higher property tax bill than several nearby towns in exchange for the commute and school profile.

Poor fit if you:

• Want the lowest tax bill nearby; Evesham Township and several Burlington County towns beat Voorhees on that metric today, per the same state data used above.
• Need a walkable town center now; Voorhees Town Center’s retail core is largely closed pending a redevelopment sale that hadn’t closed as of early 2026.
• Assume home values climb on a fixed schedule; the two most recent sale-price cuts checked for this page point in different directions depending on the month and the geography measured, which argues for checking current data at the time of an actual purchase.