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This picturesque township boasts an agrarian community with little development and is actively involved in historic and farmland preservation. Quaint hamlets of clustered houses such as Rosemont, Sandy Ridge and Headquarters, dot the open farmland. The state’s only covered bridge, the Green Sergeant’s Bridge, spans the Wickecheoke Creekn just west of Sergeantsville, a charming one crossroad town with a general store, municipal building and restaurant. The township is 37 square miles and the population is 4,586. Stockton Borough, well known for Collingan’s Stockton Inn, is a quiet little river town of .6 square miles, with a population of 561.
Delaware Township’s 2007 tax rate was 2.04; the ratio was 85.21.
Stockton Borough’s 2007 tax rate was 1.51; the ratio was 106.44.