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Cranbury

Cranbury is a township in southern Middlesex County, within the U.S.

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The place

Cranbury is a township in southern Middlesex County, within the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 3,842, a decrease of 15 (−0.4%) from the 2010 census count of 3,857, which in turn reflected an increase of 630 (+19.5%) from the 3,227 counted in the 2000 census.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cranbury

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    New Jersey's 12th congressional district

    New Jersey's 12th congressional district is represented by Democrat Bonnie Watson Coleman, who has served in Congress since 2015. The district is known for its research centers and educational institutions such as Princeton University, The College of New Jersey, Institute for Advanced Study, Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

    2.2 km · U.S. House district for New Jersey · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cranbury

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 51 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 72 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 75 km
  • Newark → Cranbury
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · $5–7
  • New York → Cranbury
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · $6–8
  • Philadelphia → Cranbury
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · $7–9
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cranbury

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cranbury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inhobby) flying, but it also sees its fair share of business charter flights.

From Wikivoyage: Princeton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    122 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    626 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,612 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,616 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,745 km

If you know how people move in Cranbury – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Cranbury

Cranbury is 42 km from Staten Island, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cranbury Stationhuman settlement in Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America2.7 km