Situated 45 minutes from downtown Philadelphia and less than ninety minutes from Manhattan, Hopewell Valley is home to such corporations as Merrill Lynch, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Janssen Pharmaceutica.
Nearby are Princeton University, Rider University, The College of New Jersey, and Mercer County Community College, while Rutgers, the State University, is forty-five minutes to the north.
The state capital, Trenton, is ten minutes south of the Valley. Just over the southern Hopewell Township border in Ewing Township is the Trenton-Mercer Airport.