THE RICHWOOD LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Coastal Plain setting.
Richwood CDP has 8.86 square miles of land in Gloucester 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
Richwood and Gloucester County
Richwood 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.
Richwood by land and water
The Census records 0.06 square miles of water within Richwood, or 0.6% of its total area. It is 3.7 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, Richwood CDP has 46.8% of the land area of nearby Harrison township (18.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

