Ocean County, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
230 ft 70 m170 ft 50 m140 ft 45 m85 ft 26 m29 ft 9 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- 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.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ocean County averages about 78 ft (24 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Little Egg Harbor to 230 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
78 ft 24 m
all land inside the county
Highest
230 ft 70 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Little Egg Harbor
Ocean County spans about 230 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.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 78 ft24 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 230 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Little Egg Harbor | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
27 mi west to east through Lakewood Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 666,434 2024 est.
- Land area
- 628.3 sq mi + 286.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,061 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain 97%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Monmouth County100 ft
- Ocean County78 ft
- Burlington County69 ft
- Atlantic County45 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New Jersey15th highest of 21
- Counties in the United States2,966th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Forked River Mountain180 ft
- Stony Hill, Ocean County134 ft
- The Dunes22 ft
All 60 towns in Ocean County by typical elevation
- Cedar Glen Lakes150 ft
- Vista Center150 ft
- Crestwood Village140 ft
- Jackson Township120 ft
- Plumsted Township120 ft
- Barnegat Township98 ft
- Ocean Acres89 ft
- Cedar Glen West87 ft
- New Egypt85 ft
- Manchester Township79 ft
- Pine Ridge at Crestwood77 ft
- Stafford Township74 ft
- Lakehurst70 ft
- Leisure Knoll70 ft
- Pine Lake Park69 ft
- Lakewood Township65 ft
- Lakewood62 ft
- Leisure Village West58 ft
- Leisure Village52 ft
- Leisure Village East52 ft
- Barnegat50 ft
- Beachwood48 ft
- Holiday Heights43 ft
- Toms River42 ft
- Toms River Township41 ft
- Holiday City-Berkeley41 ft
- Berkeley Township36 ft
- South Toms River35 ft
- Holiday City South35 ft
- Manahawkin27 ft
- Little Egg Harbor Township21 ft
- Island Heights20 ft
- Brick Township20 ft
- Silver Ridge20 ft
- Lacey Township18 ft
- Pine Beach16 ft
- Eagleswood Township12 ft
- Ocean Township, Ocean County11 ft
- Point Pleasant11 ft
- Tuckerton10 ft
- Mystic Island8 ft
- Point Pleasant Beach8 ft
- Forked River6 ft
- Seaside Park6 ft
- Bay Head5 ft
- Barnegat Light5 ft
- Waretown5 ft
- Ocean Gate5 ft
- Long Beach Township5 ft
- North Beach Haven5 ft
- Ship Bottom5 ft
- Harvey Cedars4 ft
- Beach Haven4 ft
- Mantoloking4 ft
- Surf City4 ft
- Seaside Heights4 ft
- Beach Haven West4 ft
- Lavallette4 ft
- Dover Beaches North4 ft
- Dover Beaches South4 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; 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, −4 ft at 39.5154° N, 74.2818° 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 counties 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 county 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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.