THE MONMOUTH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Coastal Plain setting.
Monmouth County has 468.2 square miles of land in New Jersey. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Monmouth County: Inner Coastal Plain, Pine Barrens, Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes.
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
Monmouth County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Inner Coastal Plain61.1%
- Pine Barrens36%
- Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes2.9%
Finding your parcel within Monmouth County
The atlas lists 75 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Monmouth County, including Howell, Upper Freehold, Middletown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Monmouth County by land and water
The Census records 193.2 square miles of water within Monmouth County, or 29.2% of its total area. That share is close to Monmouth County’s 29.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Monmouth County has 15.2 times the land area of nearby Colts Neck township (30.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Burlington County, Mercer County, Middlesex County, Ocean County within New Jersey. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.