THE MONROE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pine Barrens setting.
Monroe township has 46.4 square miles of land in Gloucester County. Its Census reference point is in Pine Barrens, 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
Monroe and Gloucester County
Monroe is associated with Gloucester 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.
Monroe by land and water
The Census records 0.51 square miles of water within Monroe, or 1.1% of its total area. It is 3.3 percentage points lower than the 4.4% recorded for Gloucester County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Monroe township has 6.3 times the land area of nearby Williamstown CDP (7.42 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

