Urbanization and Change in Cilacap Regency

Cilacap regency is one of many regencies in Central Java province, having anarea of 2,138.50 Km2. . In 2011 the population was 1,755,268with 284 villages in 24 districts. Since the development over the region has been more concentrated in the industrial areas, the changing of agriculture area becoming urban area took place rapidly and significantly. Therefore knowledge of urban area determination to support development policy over region is needed.The availability of abundant data of the region enable Multivariate data analysis be used to determination of urban area. The steps of determination are selection of available data, factor analysis, principal component analysis, and cluster analysis. This study aims to determine the urban area in Cilacap regency by multivariate analysis. The results is: there are 41 villages meet characteristic ofurban area. The villages that is considered urban areas are around the major road network indicated by having higher population and more facilities as compared to the surrounding area.