THE WORCESTER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Delmarva Uplands setting.
Worcester County has 468.3 square miles of land in Maryland. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Worcester County: Delmarva Uplands, Virginian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes, Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes.
Low coastal plains contain terraces, estuaries, marshes and barrier islands. Unconsolidated sediments underlie this varied coastal setting, with forest patterns changing near streams and low-lying areas.
Regional context: Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Worcester County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Delmarva Uplands61.1%
- Virginian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes24.8%
- Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes14.1%
Finding your parcel within Worcester County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Worcester County, including Newark, Ocean Pines, Ocean City. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Worcester County by land and water
The Census records 226.6 square miles of water within Worcester County, or 32.6% of its total area. That share is close to Worcester County’s 32.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Worcester County has 49.6 times the land area of nearby Newark CDP (9.44 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Somerset County, Wicomico County within Maryland. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

