Table 72

RESIDENTIAL LAND USE IN THE REGION BY COUNTY: 1963, 1970, 1975, 1980, AND 1985
Residential Land Use
1963             1970            1975             1980             1985
Percent          Percent         Percent          Percent          Percent
County       Acres  of Region  Acres  of Region  Acres  of Region  Acres  of Region  Acres  of Region
Kenosha ......   10,712     8.8   12,266    8.6   13,936     8.5   15,128     8.4   15,320    8.3
Milwaukee  . . .  41,566   33.9   43,964    30.8   45,927    28.0   47,196    26.2  47,995    26.0
Ozaukee .........  7,564     6.2    9,983    7.0   12,090     7.4   13,209     7.4   13,694    7.4
Racine ....... .13,144     10.7   15,925   11.2   17,627    10.8   19,082    10.6   19,441   10.6
Walworth.... .   11,790     9.6   12,989    9.1   14,773     9.0   16,171     9.0   16,480     8.9
Washington . . .   7,342     6.0    9,959    7.0   12,701     7.8   15,508     8.6   16,076     8.7
Waukesha... ..   30,421    24.8   37,605   26.3   46,678    28.5   53,537    29.8   55,597   30.1
Region         122,539   100.0  142,691   100.0  163,732  100.0  179,831   100.0  184,603   100.0
Change in Residential Land Use
1963-1970        1970-1975        1975-1980       1980-1985        1970-1985
County        Acres  Percent  Acres   Percent  Acres   Percent  Acres  Percent  Acres   Percent
Kenosha ...... ...1,554     14.5    1,670   13.6     1,192    8.6     192      1.3    3,054    24.9
Milwaukee  . . .   2,398     5.8    1,963    4.5     1,269    2.8     799      1.7    4,031     9.2
Ozaukee .........2,419      32.0    2,107   21.1     1,119    9.3     485      3.7    3,711    37.2
Racine........2,781        21.2    1,702   10.7     1,455    8.3     359      1.9    3,516   22.1
Walworth .         1,199    10.2    1,784    13.7    1,398    9.5     309      1.9    3,491    26.9
Washington . . ..  2,617    35.6    2,742    27.5    2,807   22.1     568      3.7    6,117    61.4
Waukesha .....    7,184    23.6    9,073    24.1    6,859   14.7    2,060     3.8   17,992    47.8
Region          20,152    16.4   21,041    14.7   16,099     9.8   4,772     2.7   41,912    29.4
Source: SEWRPC.

under development for residential use or imme-
diately available for such use. The latter cate-
gory includes vacant building sites between
existing residences, and improved but still
vacant residential subdivisions.
Land devoted to residential use encompassed
184,600 acres, or about 11 percent of the total
area of the Region, in 1985. The distribution of
these lands in the Region is shown on Map 40.
As shown on that map, the pattern of residential
land in southeastern Wisconsin consists both of
large contiguous tracts of residential land in the
urbanized portions of the Region and scattered
tracts of residential land in isolated rural areas.

In 1985, Waukesha County accounted for about
30 percent of all residential land in the Region,
Milwaukee County about 26 percent, and Racine
County just over 10 percent. Kenosha, Ozaukee,
Walworth, and Washington Counties each
accounted for less than 10 percent of the regional
total (see Table 72).
Between 1963 and 1970, residential land use in
the Region increased by about 20,200 acres, or
16 percent, an average annual increase of 2,879
acres. Between 1970, the base year of the
adopted regional land use plan, and 1985,
residential land use increased by an additional
41,900 acres, or 29 percent, an average annual

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