THE BURLINGTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pine Barrens setting.
Burlington County has 799.3 square miles of land in New Jersey. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Burlington County: Pine Barrens, Inner Coastal Plain, Delaware River Terraces and Uplands, among others.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Burlington County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pine Barrens57.2%
- Inner Coastal Plain37.1%
- Delaware River Terraces and Uplands4.1%
- Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes1.6%
Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain in Burlington County
Low coastal plains contain terraces, estuaries, marshes and barrier islands. Unconsolidated sediments underlie this varied coastal setting, with forest patterns changing near streams and low-lying areas.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Burlington County
The atlas lists 58 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Burlington County, including Washington, Woodland, Bass River. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Burlington County by land and water
The Census records 21.1 square miles of water within Burlington County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Burlington County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Burlington County has 386.9 times the land area of nearby Leisuretowne CDP (2.07 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atlantic County, Camden County, Mercer County, Monmouth County, Ocean County within New Jersey. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

