[10][11] The area now known as Cherry Hill was originally settled by the Lenni-Lenape Native Americans before being displaced by the first settlers from England, namely Quaker followers of William Penn who arrived in the late 17th century.

Today, the municipality's population is stable, with new development generally occurring in pockets of custom luxury houses or through the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of commercial and industrial areas.

Delaware Township mayors Christian Weber and John Gilmour pursued public write-in campaigns to select possible titles and chose Cherry Hill from suggestions that included Chapel Hill, Cherry Valley and Delaware City.

[27] The name "Cherry Hill" was chosen by the township's citizens in a non-binding referendum in 1961 and was officially adopted on November 7, 1961.

[2][3] Ashland (2010 population of 8,302[28]), Barclay (4,428[29]), Cherry Hill Mall (14,171[30]), Ellisburg (4,413[31]), Golden Triangle (4,145[32]), Greentree (11,367[33]), Kingston Estates (5,685[34]) and Springdale (14,518[35]) are unincorporated communities and census-designated places (CDPs) located within the township.

[36] Other unincorporated communities, localities, neighborhoods, and place names located partially or completely within the township include Coffins Corner, Colwick, Cooperstown, Deer Park, Erlton, Freeman, Greenbrier, Huttons Hill, Locust Grove, Old Orchard, Point of Woods and Woodcrest.

[54] 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 14th most-populous municipality and the county's second largest in the 2010 Census,[55] having surpassed both Brick Township, as well as nearby Camden, within the previous decade, and was ranked 13th in 2000.

An extensive array of businesses owned by Korean Americans has emerged along Marlton Pike (Route 70) in Cherry Hill since 2010, with signage in Hangul ubiquitous along this stretch.

[50][51] Cherry Hill features a temperate, humid subtropical climate, with mild winters, and receives approximately 58% of total possible sunshine annually.

Cherry Hill is an edge city within a half-hour commute to Philadelphia, Camden, Trenton or Princeton.

[80] Muhammad Ali purchased a house at 1121 Winding Drive in Cherry Hill's Voken Tract in 1971, living there with his family until 1974.

The department's TRT (Tactical Response Team) responds to requests for the service of high risk warrants, the resolving of barricaded and/or hostage situations, and dealing with suicidal individuals just to name a few of their assignments.

CHPD's Community Policing Unit provides many services for residents including child fingerprinting, neighborhood watches, and drug & alcohol awareness seminars.

The current facility was completed in December 2004 to replace the 1966 Malcolm Wells-designed structure at 1100 King's Highway North.

On May 19, 1951, the citizens adopted, in a special election, a Walsh Act Commission form of government, consisting of a three-member Board of Commissioners.

[106] By 1975, after a Charter Study Commission report and the passage of a ballot referendum, the township adopted the Council-Manager Plan B form of government.

[106] As of 2024[update], the Mayor of Cherry Hill is Democrat David Fleisher, whose term of office ends December 31, 2027.

[109][110][111][112] In January 2024, the Township Council selected Jill Hulnick to fill the council seat expiring in December 2027 that became vacant when David Fleisher took office as mayor and appointed Daniel DiRenzo to fill the seat expiring in December 2025 that was vacated after Brian Baurele resigned to take the position as the mayor's chief of staff; both will serve on an interim basis until the November 2024 general election, when voters will choose candidates to serve the balance of the two terms of office.

[113][114] In January 2016, the Township Council selected Carolyn Jacobs from a list of three candidates nominated by the Democratic municipal committee to fill the seat expiring in December 2017 that became vacant when Susan Shin Angulo took office as a Camden County Freeholder.

[115] N. John Amato, whose 30 years of service made him the township's longest-serving council member, died in office in September 2014.

[116] At a special council meeting in October 2014, Brian Bauerle was selected to fill Amato's seat, which expired in December 2015.

[119][120][121] Prior to the 2010 Census, Cherry Hill had been part of the 3rd Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

[122] For the 119th United States Congress, New Jersey's 1st congressional district is represented by Donald Norcross (D, Camden).

[125] For the 2024-2025 session, the 6th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by James Beach (D, Voorhees Township) and in the General Assembly by Louis Greenwald (D, Voorhees Township) and Pamela Rosen Lampitt (D, Cherry Hill).

[145] Among the township's 2010 Census population, 70.6% (vs. 57.1% in Camden County) were registered to vote, including 91.7% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 73.7% countywide).

[150] In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 59.9% of the vote (22,734 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush, who received around 39.3% (14,923 votes), with 37,980 ballots cast among the township's 48,778 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 77.9.

The IB Primary Years Programme is offered at Joseph D. Sharp, James F. Cooper and Thomas Paine Elementary Schools.

[195] Camden County College operates one of its three campuses at the William G. Rohrer Center at Route 70 East and Springdale Road.

[201] NJ Transit's Atlantic City Line,[202] traveling on the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line route, stops at the Cherry Hill station, located on the west side of the tracks between the Garden State Pavilion shopping center and the newer development on the grounds of the former Garden State Racetrack.

[204] As of 2016[update], two Taiwan-based airlines, China Airlines and EVA Air, provides scheduled airport shuttle bus or van services to and from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City for customers based in New Jersey and the Philadelphia area.