THE GLOUCESTER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Coastal Plain setting.
Gloucester County has 322 square miles of land in New Jersey. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Gloucester County: Inner Coastal Plain, Pine Barrens, 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
Gloucester County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Inner Coastal Plain52.4%
- Pine Barrens29.4%
- Delaware River Terraces and Uplands18.1%
Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain in Gloucester 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 Gloucester County
The atlas lists 41 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Gloucester County, including Franklin, Monroe, Logan. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Gloucester County by land and water
The Census records 14.7 square miles of water within Gloucester County, or 4.4% of its total area. That share is close to Gloucester County’s 4.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Gloucester County has 145.2 times the land area of nearby Pitman borough (2.22 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atlantic County, Camden County, Cumberland County, Salem County within New Jersey. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

