Exurban Change Program - Growth and Change

Ohio’s landscape is a mosaic of disparate land uses. Ohio is one of the most urbanized states in the country, yet retains over half its land base in agricultural uses. As a result, Ohio’s “rural-urban interface” — areas in which both rural and urban land uses are found — is increasingly a setting where concerns and debates have merged concerning the management of population growth and urban development, farmland conversion and loss of rural character.

This report reviews recent changes in population, urban land use, and other land use changes in Ohio and discusses land use policies that are currently in place. This report contains four sections that deal with each of these topics respectively. Each section begins with a list of key findings, which is followed by a more in-depth discussion of the findings, and concludes with a description of the data used to support the analysis.

Download the report or individual sections. (Note: all files in Adobe Acrobat, *.pdf, format)