How big is a City Block?
A couple of Acres is a lot of land, and I hope this gives you a perspective of just how big they are.
City Blocks differ in size, but the typical square city block reaches 16 or 17 per mile, or 2.21 to 2.50 Acres.
Engineers use a typical city block as 100,000 sq. ft. for calculation estimates, which is about 17 blocks per mile or 2 1/4 acres.
(A football field is 300 feet by 160 feet, which is 1.1 Acres.)
|
City Blocks per Mile |
length of City Block |
Square Feet of City Block |
Total Acres of City Block |
|
15 |
352 |
123,904 |
2.84 |
|
16 |
330 |
108,900 |
2.50 |
|
17 |
311 |
96,465 |
2.21 |
|
18 |
293 |
86,044 |
1.98 |
|
19 |
278 |
77,225 |
1.77 |
|
20 |
264 |
69,696 |
1.60 |
Portland Oregon's downtown city block is 68,000, while Chicago's uses a double block size of 217,000. The average city has from 15 to 20 blocks per mile, which range from a 264' to 352' frontage which is usually a square, or about 69,000 to 123,000 sq. ft. or 1.60 to 2.84 Acres