THE BARNSTABLE TOWN LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cape Cod/Long Island setting.
Barnstable Town city has 59.9 square miles of land in Barnstable County. Its Census reference point is in Cape Cod/Long Island, within Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens.
Sandy coastal landscapes combine beaches, dunes, bays and marshes with oak-pine woodland. These pine-barrens settings form a transition between warmer southern coasts and rockier shores farther north.
Regional context: Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Barnstable Town and Barnstable County
Barnstable Town is associated with Barnstable County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Barnstable Town by land and water
The Census records 16.5 square miles of water within Barnstable Town, or 21.6% of its total area. It is 48.2 percentage points lower than the 69.8% recorded for Barnstable County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Barnstable Town city has 9 times the land area of nearby West Yarmouth CDP (6.69 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

