THE SALEM COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Coastal Plain setting.
Salem County has 331.9 square miles of land in New Jersey. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Salem County: Inner Coastal Plain, Delaware River Terraces and Uplands, Pine Barrens.
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
Salem County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Inner Coastal Plain44.8%
- Delaware River Terraces and Uplands41.9%
- Pine Barrens13.3%
Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain in Salem 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 Salem County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Salem County, including Lower Alloways Creek, Pittsgrove, Upper Pittsgrove. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Salem County by land and water
The Census records 40.7 square miles of water within Salem County, or 10.9% of its total area. That share is close to Salem County’s 10.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Salem County has 48.4 times the land area of nearby Alloway CDP (6.85 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cumberland County, Gloucester County within New Jersey. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.