THE HUDSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Triassic Lowlands setting.
Hudson County has 46.2 square miles of land in New Jersey. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Hudson County: Glaciated Triassic Lowlands, Hackensack Meadowlands.
Rounded low hills, open valleys and irregular plains form a transition between Appalachian highlands and the coastal plain. The underlying geology mixes metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks.
Regional context: Northern Piedmont ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Hudson County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Triassic Lowlands55%
- Hackensack Meadowlands45%
Finding your parcel within Hudson County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hudson County, including Jersey City, Kearny, Secaucus. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hudson County by land and water
The Census records 16.2 square miles of water within Hudson County, or 25.9% of its total area. That share is close to Hudson County’s 25.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hudson County has 3.1 times the land area of nearby Jersey City city (14.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bergen County, Essex County, Union County within New Jersey. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

