Lower Makefield Township, Pennsylvania

Lower Makefield Township
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Coordinates: 40°13′32″N 74°49′56″W / 40.22556°N 74.83222°W / 40.22556; -74.83222
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Bucks
Area [1]
• Total	18.28 sq mi (47.3 km2)
• Land	17.87 sq mi (46.3 km2)
• Water	0.41 sq mi (1.1 km2)
Elevation	121 ft (37 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	33,180
• Estimate  (2021)[2]	33,267
• Density	1,800/sq mi (700/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area codes	215, 267, and 445
FIPS code	42-017-44968
Website	www.lmt.org

Lower Makefield Township is a township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Lower Makefield Township is located in the Delaware Valley and borders the Delaware River and New Jersey to its north and east. Most addresses in the township have a Yardley address; the township surrounds the borough of Yardley on its north, south, and west.

Neighboring towns and cities in New Jersey are Hopewell Township, Ewing Township, and Trenton. Additionally, the township borders Upper Makefield Township, Newtown Township, Pennsylvania, Middletown Township, Pennsylvania, Falls Township, and Morrisville, and as mentioned above, surrounds Yardley Borough on three sides.

As of the 2010 census, the population of Lower Makefield Township was 32,559, not including Yardley Borough, and it ranked first in Pennsylvania for both median household and median family income (for places with a population over 10,000);^{[citation needed]} however, it ranked 78th overall in the United States (between Westfield, New Jersey and Moraga, California) for median household income, but non-census 2006 data indicates that since the 2000 census, it moved up to 31st for median household income (between Wellesley, Massachusetts and Rye, New York), and ninth for disposable household income, due to relatively low taxes and extremely low^{[clarification needed]} house prices compared to other peer, very-high-income towns.^{[citation needed]} Living expenses are lower than in the bordering Ewing Township, New Jersey, though Ewing's median household income is nearly half and it has a crime rate many times higher.^{[citation needed]}

Lower Makefield is the largest municipality (by population) in North America without its own municipal court or post office.^{[citation needed]} The municipal court serving Lower Makefield is in Morrisville (the town bordering the township to the southeast), and there are no plans to change the arrangements with Morrisville. The post office, while retaining the name of Morrisville, is located within Falls Township in which some of the township is served by the same ZIP code (19067). Previously Morrisville had a higher population, but with the growth in Lower Makefield over the past 30 years, Morrisville is now a much smaller place by both land area and population.^{[citation needed]}

Lower Makefield Township has been a top finisher in the MONEY Magazine and CNN/Money "Best Places to Live" rankings for the Eastern region of the United States in the under 100,000 population category.^{[citation needed]}