Gloucester

Gloucester County () is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's 14th-most-populous county, with a population of 302,294, an increase of 14,006 from the 288,288 counted in the 2010 census, which in turn represented an increase of 33,615 from the 2000 census population of 254,673. Its county seat is Woodbury.The county's largest city by population was Washington Township which had a population of 48,677 in 2020, while the largest municipality by area was Franklin Township, which covered 56.39 square miles.The county is part of the Camden, New Jersey metropolitan division of both the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metropolitan statistical area, and the Delaware Valley combined statistical area.Gloucester County borders Philadelphia, the nation's sixth most populous city, to its northwest, and is 52 miles northwest of Atlantic City.