'deserted areas' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a location that has very few people in it, typically due to being in a remote location. For example: "We drove through some deserted areas on our way to the cabin."
But the deputy minister for the Kurdish government's security forces, Jabbar Yawer, said that no one had been wounded or killed because the bombing had hit deserted areas.
From Charity, I rode my bicycle through nearly deserted areas of the Sixth and Seventh Wards to Dillard University, a traditionally black college whose lovely campus, with its white-columned buildings, flooded but was cleaned up and reopened for the next school year.
Unlike disused offices, which have been converted into housing and have contributed new homes and helped breath new life into previously deserted areas, retail outlets pop up in many smaller residential locations where stores perform an important function for the community.
While the streets of Islamabad were largely deserted, areas around polling stations were described as filled with crowds.
Rune Berglund Steen, the director of The Norwegian Center against Racism, told VICE News: "The Special Unit of the Police has previously criticized police officers in Oslo Police District for abandoning Roma (gypsies) in deserted areas in conditions where they were at risk of harm.
"In movie theaters" "Near call centers (business offices that handle telephone communication with their customers)" "On beaches" "At celebrations and festivals" "Near college campuses" "Construction sites", "Deserted areas" "Temples","Shopping malls", "Market places".
The institute's modern-looking, red building is standing alone in an otherwise deserted area.
Amnesty found that abuses were not confined to desert areas but continued in major cities.
Non-venomous, active, powerful constrictors, these snakes are spread across the dry continent down under, mostly confined to desert areas.
Tribes and smugglers rule desert areas south of the capital.
In desert areas the smaller owls rely primarily on holes made by woodpeckers in large cacti.
