{"id":3915,"date":"2010-04-13T17:34:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2021-06-14T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T23:49:44","slug":"trailer-park-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/trailer-park-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer Park Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Queries from the major search engines continue to land on my website and provide great topics for full-blown articles. An anonymous viewer wondered which state had the highest percentage of residents living in trailer parks. Google thought I had the answer. I didn’t. I’d never even considered it in detail before but I certainly had my preconceived notions. Now I know the facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Sterotype<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t possible for me to determine the reason behind the query. Maybe it was inquisitiveness, maybe it was sarcasm, or maybe it was something else entirely. There\u2019s often an unfavorable slant whenever residents of mobile home communities find themselves reduced to a stereotype<\/a>. That\u2019s not my intent. I wanted to see if I could find an answer purely based on curiosity once I spotted the query in my logs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Abandoned<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I quickly found the MHVillage<\/a> website, a clearinghouse for mobile home purchases, sales and rentals. I\u2019m a numbers person so it struck me as remarkable when I saw there were 36,246 trailer parks in the United States on the day I checked the site. That amazing. I had no idea the number would be that large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re also scattered everywhere throughout the nation, even in nominally urban and suburban locations. For instance, the website led me to a trailer park just 11 miles from the White House, in Virginia\u2019s Fairfax County, one of the most affluent in the United States (map<\/a>). So much for stereotypes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Largest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I also attempted to find the world\u2019s largest trailer park. I couldn\u2019t find a definitive source but many people speculated that it might be located in Nevada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n