Tyche Shepherd’s Awesome Mainland Census December 2012

Tyche “Statto” Shepherd has again unveiled the magic powers of her survey bots to produce the latest quarterly mainland census over at SLUniverse. The survey was last ran in September 2012. The latest census, which should be read in full in the link, reveals that mainland regions are at a record high, but that the number of parcels, owners and estimated income are all down since September’s survey. Abandoned land has reached a record high.

Keypoints

• Overall number of parcels down 3.1% from 153,263 to 148,524.
• Unique parcel owners down from 69,773 to 68,664.
• The top 22 Non-Linden owners increased their mainland holdings from 6.2% to 7.4%.
• The top 3 Non-Linden owners increased their holdings from 3.1% to 4.2%.
• Abandoned Land at around 10.6% to 11.6% of all Mainland – an equivalent of 714 to 783 full regions an increase from around 9.8% to 10.9% or 714 to 783 regions.
• Estimated Monthly Mainland Tier US$926,089 , down by an estimated US$17,846 or 1.9%.
• Number of mainland regions 6,729 a record high, up 2 from 6,727.
• Linden Home Regions occupied plots 41,435 (97%) down from 41,689 (97.6%).
• Land For Sale 30,556,368Sqm down 11.7% from 34,618,224Sqm.

In terms of land holdings themself, Governor Linden is still top honcho, something has to help pay for the upkeep of that mansion! The Linden Department of Public Works comes in second but a non Linden owner has moved up to third place, with Blake Sea now in fourth.

Significant Land Holdings Over 750,000 Sqm

• Governor Linden owns 173,650,496Sqm (39.4% up from 38.6%) in 29,984 parcels.
• Linden Department of Works holds 26,877,328Sqm (6.1% no change from last survey) in 2,447 parcels.
• Largest Non-Linden group holds 4,053,576Sqm (0.9% up from 0.6%) in 63 parcels.
• Blake Sea group holds 3,167,792Sqm (0.7% no change from last survey) in 141 parcels.
• Second Largest Non-Linden group holds 2,489,888Sqm (0.6% up from 0.3%) in 38 parcels.
• Third Largest Non-Linden group holds 1,195,504Sqm (0.3%) in 255 parcels.
• Fourth Largest Non-Linden group holds 773,232Sqm (0.2%) in 261 parcels.

Now a point on the Non-Linden groups, they may not be the same groups as the last survey, so it could be that someone has significantly changed their holdings. The state of mainland ownership shows a small decline overall, nothing majorly worrying and it should be pointed out that there are margins of error…. err no there aren’t as Tyche points out in the comments! Apologies for that. Unlike the case with private regions, which are 12% down for the year, mainland seems to be holding up ok. One reason for this may well be that it’s cheaper to own mainland and people can purchase small plots.

To see all the stats of the survey, including funky graphs, go read Tyche’s post in full.

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