Mount Laurel Township is approximately 22 square miles, suburban in nature, with approximately 42,000 residents. Most of the residential housing is single-family homes, town houses and condominiums. Mount Laurel Township is at about 80% build out with the residential population expected to reach 45,000.

Mount Laurel has easy access to Philly, Atlantic City, and New York.

The Township has eight elementary schools, and a County College Campus. Approximately, 7,000 children are bused to township schools and the regional high school.

Mount Laurel Township has an extensive Parks and Recreation system which continues to grow with the Township’s continual mission of preserving open space. The open space purchases which have more than doubled the Township preserved land since 1997 is funded by the taxpayers through three open space referendi, Burlington County Open Space Funds and State Green Acres funding.

Interstate 295 passes through the township, with three exits (Exit 36: Berlin/Tacony Bridge/Route 73, Exit 40: Moorestown/Mount Holly/Route 38, Exit 43: Delran/Rancocas Woods).[109] Other major thoroughfares through Mount Laurel are Route 38, Route 73 and County Route 537.