The United States is home to over 318 million people and 2.27 billion acres of land. By 2003, we had onlydeveloped about 108 million acres, or about 4.47% of the total land area of the United States. The map above is a great way to visualize that unused land — the areas highlighted in green show all of the U.S. Census blocks that show a population of zero.

That’s a lot of land we don’t use, and it’s apparent in the National Weather Service’s impact based statistics product.

The graphics, automatically tweeted out by@NWSTornado, are mostly generated for tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings, showing the radar image at the time of the warning’s issuance, the warning box itself, a population density map of the area affected, and some statistics of the areas impacted by the expected severe weather, or…impact based statistics.

ARE YOU SURPRISED TO LEARN ALMOST HALF OF THE US IS UNPOPULATED?

To prove we are not taking this one Blog as true we found another one that accepts the map. Here it is:

Brain Post: Map of Where NOBODY Lives in the USA | 47% of the USA is Uninhabited:

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The dark green blocks in the maps above represent U.S. Census blocks where the reported population equals zero.

 

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These maps above show us, in green, where nobody lives in the USA. We often think that we just can’t get away from people, but if you head out West, you can get into some truly uninhabited zones.

What we love is that California is the most populous state with 37 million people, yet look how much uninhabited land there is in California. Another great contrast in CA.

A Block is the smallest area unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating statistics. As of the

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2010 census, the United States consists of 11,078,300 Census Blocks. Of them, 4,871,270 blocks totaling 4.61 million square kilometers were reported to have no population living inside them.Despite having a population of more than 310 million people, 47 percent of the USA remains unoccupied.

Green shading indicates unoccupied Census Blocks. A single inhabitant is enough to omit a block from shading. –maps by nik

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So there you have it!  It looks like we have a lot of room to grow and live our lives.  Looks like we will not run out of landfill space very soon either.

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