THE GREATER BRIDGEPORT PLANNING REGION LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills setting.
Greater Bridgeport Planning Region has 140.2 square miles of land in Connecticut. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Greater Bridgeport Planning Region: Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills, Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland.
Irregular plains and low hills form a coastal transition with glacial lakes and oak-pine woodland. This northeastern landscape is gentler than the mountainous country farther inland.
Regional context: Northeastern Coastal Zone ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Greater Bridgeport Planning Region intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills56%
- Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland44%
Finding your parcel within Greater Bridgeport Planning Region
The atlas lists 21 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, including Fairfield, Easton, Monroe. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Greater Bridgeport Planning Region by land and water
The Census records 98 square miles of water within Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, or 41.1% of its total area. That share is close to Greater Bridgeport Planning Region’s 41.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region has 8.7 times the land area of nearby Bridgeport city (16.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Western Connecticut Planning Region within Connecticut. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.