People per square foot?

fdd2blk

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if you take the land mass of the US and divide it by the number of people living here. how much land would each person get. then spread them evenly. how far away would your closest neighbor be?

i'm a little slow at math. anyone?
 

flowergurl

There's treachery afoot
Approximately 303,645,612 people in the United States.
3,717,792 square miles of land mass.
Makes for approzimately 81.67 people per square mile
what does a .67 of a person look like?????
 

clueless

Active Member
I'm not sure why I'm answering this, but

Land mass, miles^2 = 3,537,438
People (Est) = 300,000,000

Land per person = 3,537,438 / 300,000,000 = 0.0118 miles^2 / person

0.0118 miles^2 / person @ 5280 feet / mile = 328,727 feet^2 / person

328,727 feet^2 / person @ 1 acre / 43560 feet^2 = about 7.55 acres / person

sqrt(328,727 feet^2) = 573.3 feet between people.

I have not checked the math but it sounds about right.

Time for Jeopardy or Are you smarter than a 5th grader!
 

flowergurl

There's treachery afoot
So Canada has about 3,560,217 square miles of land mass and roughly 33,091,228 people. 9.29 people per square mile.
I'm moving to Canada...getting too close for comfort in the US...lol:mrgreen:
 

clueless

Active Member
So Canada has about 3,560,217 square miles of land mass and roughly 33,091,228 people. 9.29 people per square mile.
I'm moving to Canada...getting too close for comfort in the US...lol:mrgreen:
Yeah, I know I can see 550 feet without too much grief. It's gonna take some really good cover to hide the plants.
 

Mr.Pyrex

Well-Known Member
So Canada has about 3,560,217 square miles of land mass and roughly 33,091,228 people. 9.29 people per square mile.
I'm moving to Canada...getting too close for comfort in the US...lol:mrgreen:
majority of Canada is unpopulated, look on a map there hundreds of thousands of kilometers that no one lives in
 

flowergurl

There's treachery afoot
Are you serious??? I never noticed....I thought people were stacked on top of each other in the yukon territory:-P:-P. LMAO

majority of Canada is unpopulated, look on a map there hundreds of thousands of kilometers that no one lives in
 

mexiblunt

Well-Known Member
majority of Canada is unpopulated, look on a map there hundreds of thousands of kilometers that no one lives in
I am currently working in one of these hundreds of thousands of kilometers that no one lives in.

If it weren't for all these trees. I COULD SEE FOR MILES AND MILES!
Really tho. there is a whole lot of nothing up here.
 

fdd2blk

Well-Known Member
thank you for the answers.


i was just wondering the other day, well everyday, why people feel the need to bunch up so tight. why do people have to live in the east bay and commute the the north bay. and vice versa. why not live where you work? i don't understand it all. i think people need to spread out a little but after reading these numbers it doesn't sound like there really is a lot of room. if the math is correct and it is roughly 575 feet between people, that's not to far. 2 football fields. then two people meet in the middle and drop a baby. wow. we could fill up fast.


so what is the death to birth ratio of the US? thanks again.
 

tckfui

Well-Known Member
oh oh I got a good one, within a square mile of my house there are 34,623 people... how many people per square foot that is? nobody knows
 

tckfui

Well-Known Member
hmph the numbers not as cool as I had anticipated, in a failed attempt to make it a better number I did it per square meter
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ahh but heres one, that means there are aw man big gray letters?!??!?! anywho... what?
um...
that would mean there are 54.1 people per acre, acres are verry small, small small
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J - Dog

Well-Known Member
I'm glad people can stay 575 ft. apart from each other.

Must sukk to live in a city where they're only 5 ft. from each other..
:evil:
 
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