THE SHIP BOTTOM LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes setting.
Ship Bottom borough has 0.71 square miles of land in Ocean 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
Ship Bottom and Ocean County
Ship Bottom is associated with Ocean 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.
Ship Bottom by land and water
The Census records 0.28 square miles of water within Ship Bottom, or 28.4% of its total area. It is 3 percentage points lower than the 31.3% recorded for Ocean County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ship Bottom borough has 95.7% of the land area of nearby Surf City borough (0.74 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

