What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs today
we're going to take a look at the state with the least population density one
thing people in businesses look for when relocating is population density they
want to know how crowded town city or state's gonna be before they start
calling real-estate agents and bowling alleys they want to know if they can get
a lane on a Thursday night you know that's important to Americans so
population and population density are very different they measure population
density by taking the number of people residing in a location and the number of
square miles that location is and average it out to how many people live
per square mile on average the global population density
not including bodies of water or my cousin's ex-wife is a hundred and twenty
people per square mile in the united states some states exceed that number
and others fall well below that number this list takes a look at the states
with the lowest population density basically what states are a little
sparse when it comes to intelligent life so let's take a look and see what number
ten is number ten Kansas the Jayhawk state is overflowing with open fields
and a lot of opportunities to keep to yourself if you're a loner head to
Kansas Kansas has thirty five point six people per square mile
now to give you an idea how uncrowded that is New York City has around 24,000
per square mile 24,000 verse thirty five point six
I know it's City versus state but just giving you an idea that you know people
are living perfectly fine in very very crowded locations number nine Nevada the
Silver State doesn't have many people outside the cities most of the state is
covered by the Mojave Desert which isn't appealing to too many people
maybe Hermits people avoiding lawyers people avoiding ex-wives and mafia
hitmen that's about it the mafia hitmen don't stay there they just used the
desert to get rid of problems they had now in the comments section you will see
a bunch of people saying they still bury things in the desert and if I wouldn't
have used the phrase used to I would have another set of people climbing all
of my but saying that they stopped doing that in the 70s and I can you know
giving out bad information and and what's the other thing they like to say
oh I've lost credibility in their eyes okay so here's the thing
when you tell someone that that makes you look like a d-bag what makes you
think how someone's credibility stands in your eyes are you that important
don't even say that again Nevada has twenty six point three people
per square mile Nevada has far too much open space and that's probably why the
federal government owns 80% of it about thirteen hundred and fifty square miles
of which is designated nuclear testing grounds you don't go there to get a
tumor number eight Nebraska the Cornhusker state looks a lot like a
place that hasn't really caught on yet sort of like a bar with a bad bartender
no poor DJ the thing is this place probably never will catch on at least
not in our lifetimes Nebraska is mostly farms and as automation continues to
grow the need for farmers declines the world parts of the state will continue
to have fewer and fewer people over the coming decades and really their cities
aren't growing too fast either it's normally teenagers moving in from
the rural portion of Nebraska to Omaha or Lincoln looking for a more exciting
life and then when they get to those two cities they realize they're almost as
dull as the farm and move to places like Chicago or Denver Nebraska has 24.7
people per square mile I've been on buses with more people per square mile
Omaha is the most heavily populated area metro area has about 700,000 people
number seven Idaho Idaho may not be showing up on a list like this the next
decade or so they're gaining people they've been a very popular destination
for republican-leaning Californians for some time now I'm a firm believer in how
a person votes has nothing to do with anything else that's their business we
are all Americans meaning we are all in this together
maybe not my cousin's ex-wife she's on her own especially in the event of a
zombie apocalypse she is on her own the reason I do bring up Republican leaning
people moving to Idaho the comments section it'll be filled with people like
Charles that goes by Chuck who emails me every month or so with stats about how
great Idaho is Chuck and the people in the comment section will be saying
things like Californians are going to ruin Idaho their commie fornia and all
that other stuff and California has been ruined by all their liberal stuff and
you're gonna bring it up here to Idaho you're gonna see a gambit of all that
stuff I'm here to tell you 90% of the Californians moving Idaho are tired of
the California nonsense they want to go there to be more like you they're
already republican-leaning 90% of them keep that in mind the
population density in Idaho is 20 people per square mile place was thick with
Native Americans before it was colonized Idaho became an attractive place for
European settlers in the early 1800s and the gold rush kind of brought a bunch of
people in there too obviously it slowed down but like I said it's picked up
recently in the last decade or so
number six New Mexico New Mexico is in bad shape as of 2005 or so they became
the new Mississippi with more of a need for sunblock the Land of Enchantment has
people flooding out to the surrounding states they have a poverty issue that's
one of the worst in the country drugs and crimes are the top five worst
unemployment is always bad and the Albuquerque mayor's office hung up on me
four times as soon as they heard me say world according to Briggs that's not
even a joke I honestly believe I heard one of them drop an f-bomb on me I could
be wrong kind of muttered it anyway New Mexico has a population density of 17.2
people per square mile only fifty 1.4 percent of the people living in the
state right now were born in the state the rest are immigrants from other
states territories and countries number five South Dakota humans have lived in
what is today South Dakota for several thousand years the first inhabitants
were paleo-indian hunter-gatherers that disappeared from the area around 5,000
BC that trend hasn't changed much people just up and leave this state on the
regular it's like they've had enough and they just go poof you're gone in 1803
the United States purchased the Louisiana territory and an area that
includes most of South Dakota today from Napoleon Bonaparte soon after that
President Thomas Jefferson organized the losing Clark expedition to explore the
region they did and then they kept going till they ran out of land near historia
Oregon South Dakota is similar to North Dakota in population density just
slightly more people per square mile they have eleven point three eleven
point three people for every square mile the majority of the population is found
east of the Missouri River where the economy is based on crops and
cultivation and Deadwood's pretty fun but that's not keeping people there
number four North Dakota just like South Dakota yep North Dakota just a little
bit colder in a little bit flatter the Rough Rider state is right at the top of
the country with three other entries on this list like nobody wants to go to
this part of the country the nickname for this state is the Rough Rider state
but I like the nickname I gave it hashtag nothing to see here folks North
Dakota is the fourth least densely populated state with 11 people per
square mile prior to the arrival of European settlers this land was largely
inhabited by Native American who hunted Buffalo it was the railroad that blew it
for him the construction of the railroad brought settlers to North Dakota and I
promise you a lot of American Indians every time they saw a train where f'n
train ruining everything the majority of the state is covered in wheat farms that
are protected by anti-corporate laws that prohibit banks from owning the
title to farmland that makes North Dakota one of the smartest states in the
Union that right there is genius you go back and study the Great Depression and
everything I got in several other different periods and parts of the
country banks just wrecked farmlands and communities and just you know it was bad
anyway that's the smartest thing I've ever read while doing these lists number
three Montana Montana carries a couple nicknames the most common that everyone
knows is the Big Sky Country and then you have another one equally as exciting
the treasure state they got this one because a bunch of people got rich
mining various indigenous people lived in the territory of Montana for
thousands of years historic tribes encountered by Europeans and settlers
from the United States included the crow in the south-central area the Cheyenne
and the very south east and the Blackfeet in the central and
north-central areas there's a handful other tribes but they're far too hard
for me to pronounce this early in the morning Montana like other states in
this section of the United States are sparsely populated there's a couple
reasons for this they have great summers but painful winters really there aren't
too many people willing to subject themselves to the type of winters
Montana has actually all the states up in this area
Montana doesn't have a lot of people population density is 7.1 people per
square mile historically Montana was settled by homesteaders on large tracts
of land that were divided up amongst families this population spread
contributes to the low density of people here as well as the main economic
activity being agriculture which you know takes up a lot of land huge swaths
of land our need to cultivate cereal grain and raise
cattle and on top of it the areas that don't have farms on it have mountains on
it so not a lot of people live in the mountains usually especially when you
get bad winters in normal parts of the state move up to the mountains who gets
rough number two Wyoming the second least densely populated state is Wyoming
with six people per square mile I've been in hot tubs that were more densely
populated this state is a large state with a small population and the most
important economic activities here are cattle ranching which takes up large
portions of the land coal mining and of course tourism a large portion of the
land is either covered mountains or designated as a national protected land
like say national parks or monuments the northwest corner of the state is
completely covered with Yellowstone National Park which turns out to be a
giant supervolcano that could blow up at any time
vaporizing anyone in the vicinity I tell you if you buy land here to make sure
you have good homeowner's insurance but really it's when this thing goes it's
gonna be so bad that's not going to matter in this case I would suggest do
it a little extra pray into whoever you pray to maybe they can hook you up with
a Fastpass for wherever you're going on the day Yellowstone goes there's going
to be lines and number one Alaska Alaska has the lowest population density in the
US they have one person per square mile and compare that to the seventy one
point two for the rest of the country that's a bit low there's actually more
caribou than people in Alaska there's also five times more people than there
are teeth so that's something during the gold rush of the 1890s thousands of
immigrants went to Alaska hoping to strike it rich which as you can imagine
increase the number of people living in the state funny how the prospect of
getting rich starts a caravan to the middle of nowhere half the current
population living in Alaska lives in the Anchorage metro area Alaska is by far
the least densely populated state in the US alright so that is my list I hope you
guys enjoyed it hope there was some information out of it especially this
videos for people that are really looking for a place to kind of get away
from people if you're like I don't know independently wealthy maybe retired
military whatever and you're looking to live cheap and get away from people just
about everything on this list is an option for you so keep that in mind
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