Ninety percent of the land in the West (excluding Alaska) is owned by 5 percent (268,000) of the western landowners. That compares with a national average of 75 percent of the private land owned by 5 percent of U.S. landowners. Most of those owners of extensive tracts, however, are individuals, not corporations. Nonfamily corporations and partnerships own about 13 percent of all land and 6 percent of the farmland. Those findings are based on more than 37,000 responses to a 1978 landownership survey. The survey results, presented here, detail the differences in landowner characteristics by State and region.