Assessment of a development level of a territory can be based on various principles. Depending on the approach used and the assessment of a development level obtained on its basis, methods, mechanisms, and ways to improve the situation of the region will be selected. But the most common
approach to regional (or municipal) development is the formation of a system
primarily focused on socio-economic indicators. Th e study object is to develop a
new approach to assessing the level of territory spatial development (municipal unit, region, macro region, state), focused on identifying trends in processes’ changes occurring in the space of the selected territory and characterizing its space. Th e results of the presented study are the systematization of various approaches to assessing the spatial development level of a territory, based on the
identification of general and specific characteristics of each. Particular attention
is paid to determining the spatial development level of a territory as a process, in contrast to the existing assessment of the territory’s spatial development as a status. The assessment procedures are aimed at shaping the subsequent actions of the spatial development institutions. The following general scientifi c and specific methods were used in the study: content analysis, comparative analysis of approaches
to assessing the spatial development of territories, analysis of statistical indicators that determine the spatial state of a territory at diff erent levels. The result obtained is the addition and expansion of existing approaches to assessing the spatial development level of a region as a dynamic process, identifying the main stakeholders in the use of the analysis results and their functional roles.