THE SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT PLANNING REGION LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland setting.
South Central Connecticut Planning Region has 367.3 square miles of land in Connecticut. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across South Central Connecticut Planning Region: Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland, Connecticut Valley, Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills.
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
South Central Connecticut Planning Region intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland47.6%
- Connecticut Valley36%
- Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills16.3%
Finding your parcel within South Central Connecticut Planning Region
The atlas lists 25 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with South Central Connecticut Planning Region, including Guilford, Wallingford, Madison. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
South Central Connecticut Planning Region by land and water
The Census records 252.3 square miles of water within South Central Connecticut Planning Region, or 40.7% of its total area. That share is close to South Central Connecticut Planning Region’s 40.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, South Central Connecticut Planning Region has 29.9 times the land area of nearby East Haven CDP (12.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Capitol Planning Region, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region within Connecticut. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

