Villas, also known as the Villas, is an

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and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, suc ...

(CDP) located within Lower Township, in Cape May County,

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, United States.New Jersey: 2010 - Population and Housing Unit Counts - 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH-2-32)

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, August 2012. Accessed January 13, 2013. At the 2010 census, the CDP's population was 9,483.DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Villas CDP, New Jersey

. Accessed October 18, 2012. Villas is the site of Blitz's Market, where one of the four winning

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tickets was sold to a veteran with a disability on August 31, 2007.

Geography

According to the

, the CDP had a total area of 3.909 square miles (10.124 km²), including 3.883 square miles (10.058 km²) of land and 0.026 square miles (0.067 km²) of water (0.66%).US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990

. Accessed September 4, 2014.

Demographics

Census 2010

Census 2000

At the 2000 census there were 9,064 people, 3,733 households, and 2,456 families in the CDP. The population density was 881.5/km² (2,281.4/mi²). There were 5,694 housing units at an average density of 553.8/km² (1,433.2/mi²). The

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of the CDP was 96.35% White, 1.19% African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.35% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.86% from other races, and 0.94% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.41% of the population.DP-1 - Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 from the Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data for Villas CDP, New Jersey
,

. Accessed October 18, 2012. Of the 3,733 households 28.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.9% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.2% were non-families. 29.5% of households were one person and 15.5% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 2.98. The age distribution was 25.6% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 19.1% 65 or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.4 males. The median household income was $33,563 and the median family income was $38,950. Males had a median income of $32,996 versus $21,723 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $16,696. About 8.3% of families and 10.4% of the population were below the

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, including 14.3% of those under age 18 and 5.8% of those age 65 or over.

Education

As with other parts of Lower Township, it is served by

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for primary grades and Lower Cape May Regional School District for secondary grades. One of the Lower Township elementary school facilities, David C. Douglass Memorial Elementary School (pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten), is in Villas CDP.
The area was identical as of the

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Memorial School, the former St. Raymond School, and the library are in the CDP. The other three elementary schools are in Cold Spring: Carl T. Mitnick (grades 1–2), Maud Abrams (grades 3–4), and Sandman Consolidated (grades 5–6). The LCMR schools (Richard Teitelman Middle and

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) are in the Erma area. Students are also eligible to attend

Cape May County Technical High School Cape May County Technical High School, located in Middle Township, which provides vocational and technical education to students in ninth through twelfth grades from Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Cape May ...

Cape May Court House Cape May Court House is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Middle Township in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States.

, which serves students from the entire county in its comprehensive and vocational programs, which are offered without charge to students who are county residents. Special needs students may be referred to Cape May County Special Services School District in the Cape May Court House area.

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(PreK-12) in

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, of the

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, is the closest Catholic school. Villas CDP had its own Catholic

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, St. Raymond's School, until 2007, when it merged into Our Lady Star of the Sea School in

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. In 2010 that school merged into Cape Trinity Regional School (PreK – 8) in North Wildwood. - The author was the principal of Our Lady Star of the Sea Regional School. That school in turn merged into Wildwood Catholic Academy in 2020. Cape May County Library operates the Lower Township Library in Villas.

Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Villas include: * Michael Linnington (born 1958), CEO of Wounded Warrior Project * Steven Rappaport, performer with The Ran-Dells, which was a one-hit wonder with the song " Martian Hop".The Ran-Dells: Biography

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. Accessed October 18, 2012. "Steven Rappaport, Robert Rappaport, and John Spirt - three first cousins were the Ran-Dells. Home for Steven was Villas, NJ, Robert and John lived in Cape May, NJ."

References

External links

The Cape May Gazette Newspaper serving Villas
{{Authority control Census-designated places in Cape May County, New Jersey Lower Township, New Jersey