THE CAMDEN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pine Barrens setting.
Camden County has 221.4 square miles of land in New Jersey. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Camden County: Pine Barrens, Inner Coastal Plain, Delaware River Terraces and Uplands.
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
Camden County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pine Barrens52.4%
- Inner Coastal Plain41.2%
- Delaware River Terraces and Uplands6.4%
Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain in Camden 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 Camden County
The atlas lists 52 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Camden County, including Winslow, Waterford, Cherry Hill. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Camden County by land and water
The Census records 6.15 square miles of water within Camden County, or 2.7% of its total area. That share is close to Camden County’s 2.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Camden County has 189 times the land area of nearby West Berlin CDP (1.17 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atlantic County, Burlington County, Gloucester County within New Jersey. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

