Almost any time someone wants to describe how large an area of land is, an acre unit is used.
However, getting a feel for just how big an acre, or 20 acres, is can be challenging if you don’t have anything to reference.
How big is 20 acres?
An acre doesn’t have specific measurements along its length or width, and it can be any shape. However, an acre is always 43,560 square feet. This means that 20 acres is 871,200 square feet or 96,800 square yards. This is equal to about 0.03 square miles.
How long would it take to walk across 20 acres?
It’s hard to say exactly how long it would take someone to walk across 20 acres, as walking speed depends on fitness level, height, terrain, and weather.
However, in general, an average person can walk across one acre in about 35 seconds. This means that it would take about 700 seconds, or a little more than 11 and a half minutes, to walk across 20 acres.
15 American Football Fields
One of the easiest ways to visualize the size of 20 acres is to compare it to a football field. An American football field is 360 feet long by 160 feet wide, giving it an overall size of 57,600 square feet, which is a little bit larger than a single acre.
This means you would need just a little over 15 football fields, arranged beside each other, to equal 20 acres. You could arrange the football fields in any shape or pattern and, as long as they were still all touching, the space would be equal to 20 acres.
8 Baseball fields – fair territory
The fair territory in a baseball stadium can vary greatly in size from park to park, as the outfield parts of the baseball field don’t all need to have the same dimensions.
However, using the average size of a baseball field can still help you visualize how big an acre or 20 acres is. The average baseball field fair territory is about 108,464 square feet or 2.49 acres.
This means you would need right around 8 baseball fields to make up 20 acres.
21 Olympic Snowboarding Halfpipes
A regulation-sized snowboarding halfpipe, such as one that might be used at the Olympic games, must be 600 feet long and between 62 and 72 feet wide, giving it an overall square footage of about 40,200 feet when viewed from above.
This is just shy of an acre, and it means that it would take about 21 and a half regulation-sized snowboarding halfpipes to make 20 acres in total.
9,880 Cars
Car size can change depending on make and model, but in general, the average car is about 6 feet wide and 14.7 feet long, giving a car a square footage footprint of about 88.2 square feet.
This means you would need about 494 cars to make up a single acre, and you would need 9,880 average-sized cars to make 20 acres.
You can also compare 20 acres to the average bus, which measures about 40 feet long and is about 8.5 feet wide, giving it an overall size of 340 square feet. You would need just over 2,562 average buses to make 20 acres.
363 Homes – 2400 square feet each
The average size of a home in the United States is about 2,400 square feet. It would take about 18 homes to make up a single acre, and you would need exactly 363 homes, measuring exactly 2,400 square feet, to make up 20 acres.
Knowing how many houses would fit in a 20-acre space can help you better visualize the space because you can simply look at a neighborhood. However, it’s important to remember that this average home size doesn’t include the yard.
In the United States, the average yard size, including the portion where the house is, is about 12,632 square feet. This can vary greatly from state to state, however.
For example, the largest average yard size is in Vermont, where lots are about 75,794 square feet. Nevada has the smallest average lot size of 6,098 square feet.
Using the average United States lot size can help you visualize a 20-acre neighborhood, however. If the average lot is 12,632 square feet, you would need about 69 houses with yards to make up 20 acres.
In Vermont, this would be closer to a neighborhood of 11 or 12 houses.
4.5 Cruise Ships
The average cruise ship is 1,000 feet long and about 200 feet wide, giving them an overall footprint of about 200,000 square feet. This means that it would only take about four and a half cruise ships to make 20 acres.
The largest cruise ship in the world is called Wonder of the Seas, and it measures 1,188 feet long and 210 feet wide, giving it an overall footprint of 249,480 square feet.
Only three and a half of these ships would fit in a 20-acre space.
FAQ’s
How big is 10 acres visually?
10 acres would be equal to 43,560 square feet x 10. 435,600 square feet or 0.04 square kilometers.
What are the dimensions of 50 acres?
As mentioned, an acre can vary in dimensions. Therefore, the dimensions of 50 acres can also vary but the overall size equals 2,178,000 square feet. If you had 1 acre that equals 66 feet x 660 feet and placed 50 of them side by side, they would total 50 acres.