THE UPPER FREEHOLD LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Coastal Plain setting.
Upper Freehold township has 46.5 square miles of land in Monmouth 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
Upper Freehold and Monmouth County
Upper Freehold is associated with Monmouth 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.
Upper Freehold by land and water
The Census records 0.87 square miles of water within Upper Freehold, or 1.8% of its total area. It is 27.4 percentage points lower than the 29.2% recorded for Monmouth County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Upper Freehold township has 15.4 times the land area of nearby Cream Ridge CDP (3.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

