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Where are vacation homes located in the US?

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created: July 26, 2025, 6 p.m. | updated: July 27, 2025, 10:59 a.m.

Vacation homes in the USThe map below shows vacation homes in the US by state. (Almost 20% of vacation homes are in census tracts where more than 50% of the homes are vacation homes.) There are over 160,000 vacation homes near the Great Lakes, around 30,000 near Lake Tahoe in California/Nevada, another 30,000 near Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, and 12,000 vacation homes near Lake Champlain in New York/Vermont. Only New York City has more than 50,000 vacation homes: in other words, 75% of the vacation homes in New York state are outside of NYC. Altogether, the 50 largest cities in the US only have around 350,000 vacation homes in their vicinity (fewer than the number of vacation homes around ski resorts), and the proportion of vacation homes in said cities is substantially lower than the national average (around 1%, compared to around 3.4% in the US as a whole).

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