1. Separate Lower’s service area from a presumed demand signal
The U.S. Census Bureau records Lower township as a municipal-town in Cape May County, New Jersey. Its 2020–2024 ACS five-year population estimate is 21,956, with a margin of error of 56. That is useful geographic context for defining the market you serve, but it does not establish legal demand, competition, search volume, inquiry volume, case value or revenue. Lead Attribution should therefore not begin with a population-based assumption about how many prospects your firm will receive. It should begin with the questions your firm needs answered about actual inquiries: which service was requested, how the person reached you, whether the matter was qualified, and what happened next.
Recommended approach
Use Lower and Cape May County as precise geographic labels in your review. Ask whether records can distinguish location, practice area and outcome without treating the population estimate as a forecast. Decide in advance which geographic relationships matter to your firm: Lower alone, Cape May County more broadly, or a wider New Jersey service area.
