THE WAREHAM LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cape Cod/Long Island setting.
Wareham town has 35.8 square miles of land in Plymouth 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
Wareham and Plymouth County
Wareham is associated with Plymouth 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.
Wareham by land and water
The Census records 10.5 square miles of water within Wareham, or 22.6% of its total area. It is 17.2 percentage points lower than the 39.8% recorded for Plymouth County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wareham town has 22.2 times the land area of nearby Wareham Center CDP (1.62 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

