Pennsylvania · Off-grid & homestead potential
Carbon County is a solid bolthole (56/100). Its strengths are abundant rainfall (51.8″/yr) with little drought and almost no federal land or extraction. The trade-offs: 28 mi from the nearest metro and middling conditions for growing food.
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Carbon County is a solid bolthole (56/100). Its strengths: abundant rainfall (51.8″/yr) with little drought and almost no federal land or extraction. Watch-outs: 28 mi from the nearest metro and middling conditions for growing food.
Land in Carbon County runs about $8,381 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Carbon County gets about 51.8" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 1.1% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 28 miles away, and population density is 171.7 people per square mile.