Elwood is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) (with a 2010 Census population of 1,437 ) located within Mullica Township. ĭespite a relatively small population, Mullica Township comprises many small communities. When used as a common noun, mullikka is the Finnish term for a bull calf.Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 56.84 square miles (147.22 km 2), including 56.38 square miles (146.01 km 2) of land and 0.47 square miles (1.21 km 2) of water (0.82%). The township and its river were named after Eric Pålsson Mullica, an early Finnish settler born in 1636 who founded a homestead on the river after moving there from the vicinity of Philadelphia, and who later moved to Mullica Hill in Gloucester County. Egg Harbor City was created from portions of the township on June 14, 1858, while the Town of Hammonton was created and split off on March 5, 1866. Mullica Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 13, 1838, from the western section of Galloway Township. Geographically, the township, and all of Atlantic County, is part of the South Jersey region of the state and of the Atlantic City- Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which in turn is included in the Philadelphia- Reading- Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley.
As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 5,816, a decrease of 331 (−5.4%) from the 2010 census count of 6,147, which in turn reflected an increase of 235 (+4.0%) from the 5,912 counted in the 2000 census.
Mullica Township is a township in Atlantic County, in the U.S.
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