THE WEST TISBURY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cape Cod/Long Island setting.
West Tisbury town has 25 square miles of land in Dukes 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
West Tisbury and Dukes County
West Tisbury is associated with Dukes 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.
West Tisbury by land and water
The Census records 16.7 square miles of water within West Tisbury, or 40.1% of its total area. It is 38.9 percentage points lower than the 79% recorded for Dukes County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, West Tisbury town has 19.2 times the land area of nearby Vineyard Haven CDP (1.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

