THE OCEAN CITY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes setting.
Ocean City city has 6.76 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
Ocean City and Cape May County
Ocean City 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.
Ocean City by land and water
The Census records 4.8 square miles of water within Ocean City, or 41.5% of its total area. It is 17.9 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, Ocean City city has 3.2 times the land area of nearby Beesleys Point CDP (2.13 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.