THE WESTERN CONNECTICUT PLANNING REGION LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills setting.
Western Connecticut Planning Region has 532.1 square miles of land in Connecticut. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Western Connecticut Planning Region: Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills, Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland, Berkshire Transition.
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
Western Connecticut Planning Region intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills64.1%
- Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland22.1%
- Berkshire Transition13.8%
Northeastern Highlands in Western Connecticut Planning Region
Forested hills and mountains span northern New England, the Adirondacks and higher Catskills. Glacial lakes and steep streams accompany a transition between northern hardwood and spruce-fir forests.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Western Connecticut Planning Region
The atlas lists 81 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Western Connecticut Planning Region, including New Milford, Newtown, Greenwich. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Western Connecticut Planning Region by land and water
The Census records 115.9 square miles of water within Western Connecticut Planning Region, or 17.9% of its total area. That share is close to Western Connecticut Planning Region’s 17.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Western Connecticut Planning Region has 2,647.5 times the land area of nearby Branchville CDP (0.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region within Connecticut. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.