THE BRONX COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills setting.
Bronx County has 42.2 square miles of land in New York. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Bronx County: Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills, Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland.
Irregular plains and low hills form a coastal transition with glacial lakes and oak-pine woodland. This northeastern landscape is gentler than the mountainous country farther inland.
Regional context: Northeastern Coastal Zone ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bronx County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills50.3%
- Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland49.6%
Finding your parcel within Bronx County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bronx County, including New York. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bronx County by land and water
The Census records 15.2 square miles of water within Bronx County, or 26.4% of its total area. That share is close to Bronx County’s 26.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bronx County has 14% of the land area of nearby New York city (300.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Nassau County, New York County, Queens County, Westchester County within New York. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

