Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Stratford, NJ

Stratford is a borough in Camden County, New Jersey, covering just 1.57 square miles of land along the White Horse Pike corridor.

The borough's earliest colonial settlement grew around the White Horse Tavern in the 1740s, forming a small village called White Horse, and the Stratford Quaker Store is the only building from that early village still standing.

In the 1880s, the Rural Land Improvement Company developed the area and renamed the village Stratford after Stratford-upon-Avon, England, the birthplace of William Shakespeare.

Stratford was officially incorporated as a borough on February 13, 1925, from portions of Clementon Township, making it one of seven municipalities carved out of the now-defunct township.

The borough's population peaked at 9,801 in the 1970 census before settling to 6,981 residents in the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 6,981 people living in 2,680 households in Stratford, with a median age of 40.7 years.

Stratford is home to the Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine, giving the small borough a graduate medical school campus on Laurel Road.

Public school students from Stratford attend Sterling High School in neighboring Somerdale for grades nine through twelve, in a regional district that also serves Magnolia and receives students from Hi-Nella and Laurel Springs.

The North Branch of Big Timber Creek runs along the borough's edge, where the Laurel Mill Farms housing development was built on former farmland in the 1960s.

Stratford's recorded settlement history reaches back to 1695, when Dutch and Swedish settlers began occupying land in the area.