An intelligent electric control system for a residential area is provided and aims at solving the problems that integral power utilization is uneconomical and unreasonable and the like caused by randomness of use periods of electric appliances in an existing resident area. The intelligent electric control system for the residential area comprises a server, an intelligent acquisition terminal, a user terminal and a control system, wherein the intelligent acquisition terminal, a user terminal and a control system are respectively connected with the server. The user terminal comprises a power utilization data acquisition module and a user setting module, and the control system comprises a control module and an actuating device. The intelligent electric control system for the residential area can monitor an integral power utilization state and a dynamic transferring condition of the resident area in real time, uniformly controls user power utilization through a price method, utilizes an optimizing combination method based on state space transference to optimize a power utilization space of the resident area, and enables the power utilization of the resident area to be integrally optimized while meeting the requirements of a user.