THE PERTH AMBOY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Coastal Plain setting.
Perth Amboy city has 4.66 square miles of land in Middlesex County. Its Census reference point is in Inner Coastal Plain, 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
Perth Amboy and Middlesex County
Perth Amboy is associated with Middlesex 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.
Perth Amboy by land and water
The Census records 1.3 square miles of water within Perth Amboy, or 21.8% of its total area. It is 17.6 percentage points higher than the 4.2% recorded for Middlesex County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Perth Amboy city has 10.7 times the land area of nearby Hopelawn CDP (0.44 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

