THE BEACH HAVEN LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes setting.
Beach Haven borough has 0.98 square miles of land in Ocean County. Its Census boundary intersects Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes, 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 from the Census boundary intersection
The Census reference point falls outside the regional layer’s mapped footprint. This classification uses the actual place-boundary intersection, with Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes representing its largest mapped overlap. Shorelines and dataset boundaries can differ.
Beach Haven and Ocean County
Beach Haven is associated with Ocean 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.
Beach Haven by land and water
The Census records 1.35 square miles of water within Beach Haven, or 57.9% of its total area. It is 26.6 percentage points higher than the 31.3% recorded for Ocean County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Beach Haven borough has 18% of the land area of nearby Long Beach township (5.45 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.