Major land uses in the United States, 1949–2017

Stacked line chart showing percent of U.S. acres used for nonagricultural land (urban, special uses, and ungrazed forest) and agricultural land (special uses, grazed forest land, grassland pasture and range, and cropland).

The United States has a land area of 2.26 billion acres, mostly in grassland pasture and range, forest use, and cropland. Urban areas account for about 3 percent of U.S. land.

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