THE LOWER LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes setting.
Lower township has 27.4 square miles of land in Cape May County. Its Census reference point is in 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 at the Census reference point
Lower and Cape May County
Lower is associated with Cape May 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.
Lower by land and water
The Census records 3.69 square miles of water within Lower, or 11.9% of its total area. It is 47.6 percentage points lower than the 59.5% recorded for Cape May County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lower township has 9.4 times the land area of nearby Erma CDP (2.92 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

