Four categories of land use are shown here: residential, commercial, industrial and rural. This map highlights the transition from resource extraction/industrial land use that dominated Bowen's early history to a largely residential/rural island with developed blocks of neighborhoods: Hood Point, Miller's Landing/Scarbourough/Eaglecliff/Deep Bay/Snug Cove, Mt. Gardner Park, and Bowen Bay/Tunstall Bay/Bluewater, and Cowan's Point. Here, only a few small tracts of land show industrial land use (indicated by the darker red colour) are shown, while rural (white) and residential (yellow) dominate the map.