Has your state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic made you consider relocating? There’s been talk about how city-dwellers may flee to less dense areas. Companies relaxing their work from home policies might free people to move around the country. Or maybe we all go back to normal after a vaccine.

This much is true: it’s a big country, and there’s a whole lot of space out there where nobody lives.

Mapmaker Nik Freeman used U.S. Census data to highlight (in green) all the places nobody calls home.

One note on the map: the fact that nobody lives in a spot doesn’t mean it’s completely empty or undeveloped. “The local shopping mall, an office park, a warehouse district or a factory may have their own Census Blocks,” Freeman explains on his site. “But if people don’t live there, they will be considered ‘uninhabited.'”

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Retirement may be the time to move closer to family or put down new roots in a warm climate. Helping make that decision a bit easier is an index of the best places to retire in each of the 50 states. Continue reading…