THE LOWER MAKEFIELD LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Triassic Lowlands setting.
Lower Makefield township has 17.9 square miles of land in Bucks County. Its Census reference point is in Triassic Lowlands, within Northern Piedmont.
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 ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Lower Makefield and Bucks County
Lower Makefield is associated with Bucks County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Lower Makefield by land and water
The Census records 0.41 square miles of water within Lower Makefield, or 2.3% of its total area. It is 0.6 percentage points lower than the 2.8% recorded for Bucks County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lower Makefield township has 17.5 times the land area of nearby Woodside CDP (1.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

