New Jersey Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of New Jersey, shaded from sea level on New York Bay to 1,800 ft on Kittatinny Mountain
Elevation
1,800 ft 550 m1,350 ft 410 m1,120 ft 340 m670 ft 205 m220 ft 70 m0 ft 0 m
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USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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Elevation
Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
Satellite
A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
3D
Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
State area
Fades everything outside the official state boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

New Jersey averages about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on New York Bay to 1,800 ft on Kittatinny Mountain.

Average elevation
230 ft 70 m
all land in New Jersey
Highest
1,800 ft 550 m
on Kittatinny Mountain
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on New York Bay

New Jersey spans about 1,800 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

FigureElevation
Average of all land230 ft70 m
Highest point
In New Jersey, on Kittatinny Mountain
1,800 ft550 m
Lowest point
Where the land meets New York Bay
0 ft0 m

Elevation profile, west to east

61 mi west to east through Newark.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of New Jersey, shaded from sea level on New York Bay to 1,800 ft on Kittatinny Mountain
State boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 200 ft (61 m).
Location
State in the Middle Atlantic division of the Northeast region, United States
Population
9,500,851 2024 est.
Land area
7,355.0 sq mi + 1,364.2 sq mi water
Density
1,292 per sq mi
Counties
21
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform regions
Coastal Plain 60%, Piedmont 17%, New England 15%
Drains to
Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring states sharing a border, by average

  1. Pennsylvania1,260 ft
  2. New York1,130 ft
  3. New Jersey230 ft
  4. Delaware48 ft

Rankings by average elevation

  • States in the United States48th highest of 52

Peaks and hills highest inside

  • Kittatinny Mountain1,797 ft
  • Sunrise Mountain1,653 ft
  • Mount Tammany1,550 ft
  • Rattlesnake Mountain1,490 ft
  • Bearfort Mountain1,470 ft
All 21 counties by average elevation
  1. Sussex County790 ft
  2. Morris County640 ft
  3. Warren County610 ft
  4. Passaic County600 ft
  5. Hunterdon County410 ft
  6. Essex County240 ft
  7. Bergen County210 ft
  8. Somerset County200 ft
  9. Mercer County140 ft
  10. Union County120 ft
  11. Monmouth County100 ft
  12. Camden County91 ft
  13. Gloucester County87 ft
  14. Middlesex County81 ft
  15. Ocean County78 ft
  16. Burlington County69 ft
  17. Salem County55 ft
  18. Cumberland County49 ft
  19. Atlantic County45 ft
  20. Hudson County41 ft
  21. Cape May County13 ft
All 2 tribal lands by average elevation
  1. Ramapough SDTSA680 ft
  2. Nanticoke Lenni Lenape SDTSA65 ft
How we measure
  • Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census state boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 3 arc-second (≈300 ft, 93 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
  • Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
  • Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −120 ft at 40.3249° N, 74.9093° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
  • Nearby Places: neighboring states and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the state with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
  • Counties: each one's average on its own grid (1 arc-second, coarser for the largest), the same figure its own page shows.
  • Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
  • Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
  • Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.