Empty Quarter
A neighborhood type in the Frontier Territories group, typically frontier.
Not a residential neighborhood type. Empty Quarter marks largely unpopulated land — desert, forest, water and open range, averaging 11 residents per tract.
Household statistics describe households, and these tracts are counted as group quarters — publishing income or ownership
rates here would be misleading, so they are omitted. The tract count and geography below are meaningful.
851
Census tracts
21
People
Where these neighborhoods are
Dispersed: found in 46 states, with no single state holding more than 12.5%.
- NY — 12.5%
- MI — 12.0%
- FL — 9.4%
- PR — 7.1%
- CA — 5.6%
What this type looks like
Near-uninhabited tracts with only a handful of residents and no reportable income.
These figures describe neighborhoods, not individuals. Census tracts hold roughly 1,200 to 8,000 residents, and every number here is an area average.
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