THE WEST WINDSOR LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Coastal Plain setting.
West Windsor township has 25.5 square miles of land in Mercer 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
West Windsor and Mercer County
West Windsor is associated with Mercer 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.
West Windsor by land and water
The Census records 0.71 square miles of water within West Windsor, or 2.7% of its total area. It is 0.8 percentage points higher than the 1.9% recorded for Mercer County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, West Windsor township has 14 times the land area of nearby Princeton Junction CDP (1.82 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.