KEY FINDINGS
+ The total amount of land classified as Urban Development (residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, transportation) was between 50% and 60% of the total land area from 1971 to 1999. From 1999 until 2016 it increased by 1064 acres to 70%.
+ 18% of the existing buildings were built prior to 1940. 15% were built between 2000 and 2016.
+ 47% of Natick’s total land area is in residential use. In 1999, multi-family residential represented 4.3% of all residential land use (by acreage). Today it represents 17%.
+ The 1970 population occupied approximately 0.13 acres per person (based on total acreage in residential use). That number increased to 0.15 acres per person in 2000 and today is less than 0.14 acres per person.