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Land Use by US State: 1990:
Ranked by Human Land Use Share

    Human Use Land  
Rank State Percentage in Agricultural Use Percentage in Urban Use Percentage in Human Use Percentage in Other Land (Largely Open Space)
1 Iowa 93.65% 3.23% 96.88% 3.12%
2 Nebraska 95.69% 0.75% 96.44% 3.56%
3 North Dakota 91.71% 3.90% 95.61% 4.39%
4 Kansas 91.44% 1.46% 92.90% 7.10%
5 South Dakota 91.22% 0.67% 91.89% 8.11%
6 Illinois 80.02% 6.03% 86.05% 13.95%
7 Texas 78.78% 3.60% 82.38% 17.62%
8 Oklahoma 75.01% 5.05% 80.06% 19.94%
9 Indiana 71.09% 5.29% 76.38% 23.62%
10 Missouri 68.82% 3.60% 72.43% 27.57%
11 Ohio 59.93% 8.70% 68.63% 31.37%
12 Montana 65.72% 1.38% 67.11% 32.89%
13 Minnesota 58.86% 4.54% 63.40% 36.60%
14 Hawaii 45.25% 16.08% 61.32% 38.68%
15 New Mexico 59.41% 1.00% 60.41% 39.59%
16 Kentucky 55.59% 3.69% 59.28% 40.72%
17 Wyoming 56.62% 0.42% 57.05% 42.95%
18 Wisconsin 50.63% 4.31% 54.94% 45.06%
19 Tennessee 46.90% 7.61% 54.51% 45.49%
20 Arizona 50.76% 3.13% 53.89% 46.11%
21 Delaware 47.23% 6.31% 53.55% 46.45%
22 Colorado 50.80% 1.73% 52.52% 47.48%
23 Maryland 35.49% 16.22% 51.70% 48.30%
24 Arkansas 46.54% 3.64% 50.18% 49.82%
25 Mississippi 43.30% 3.46% 46.76% 53.24%
26 New Jersey 18.03% 27.28% 45.31% 54.69%
27 Virginia 35.03% 7.07% 42.10% 57.90%
28 Florida 31.59% 9.78% 41.38% 58.62%
29 Washington 37.51% 3.15% 40.66% 59.34%
30 Georgia 33.67% 5.23% 38.90% 61.10%
31 Alabama 31.11% 7.66% 38.77% 61.23%
32 Louisiana 31.91% 5.00% 36.91% 63.09%
33 California 30.82% 6.07% 36.90% 63.10%
34 New York 28.13% 7.32% 35.45% 64.55%
35 Massachusetts 13.81% 21.46% 35.27% 64.73%
36 Rhode Island 14.20% 20.70% 34.90% 65.10%
37 Michigan 29.70% 4.83% 34.54% 65.46%
38 Pennsylvania 28.27% 6.23% 34.50% 65.50%
39 Connecticut 13.93% 19.00% 32.93% 67.07%
40 North Carolina 31.02% 1.38% 32.40% 67.60%
41 South Carolina 26.98% 5.15% 32.14% 67.86%
42 Oregon 29.39% 1.04% 30.42% 69.58%
43 Vermont 25.54% 2.25% 27.79% 72.21%
44 West Virginia 24.52% 2.87% 27.39% 72.61%
45 Idaho 26.09% 0.59% 26.68% 73.32%
46 Utah 21.16% 1.84% 23.00% 77.00%
47 Nevada 15.20% 1.80% 17.00% 83.00%
48 New Hampshire 8.83% 7.06% 15.89% 84.11%
49 Maine 7.12% 3.71% 10.83% 89.17%
50 Alaska 0.47% 2.96% 3.43% 96.57%

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