THE PITTSGROVE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pine Barrens setting.
Pittsgrove township has 44.9 square miles of land in Salem 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
Pittsgrove and Salem County
Pittsgrove is associated with Salem 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.
Pittsgrove by land and water
The Census records 0.86 square miles of water within Pittsgrove, or 1.9% of its total area. It is 9.1 percentage points lower than the 10.9% recorded for Salem County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pittsgrove township has 18 times the land area of nearby Olivet CDP (2.49 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

