How Big is 7 1/2 Acres of Land? (With Helpful Visual Comparisons)


Are you looking to buy some property? Maybe you found a plot of land that is seven and a half acres but can grasp how big that really is. Well, you’ve come to the right place!

If one acre measures 43,560 square feet, then 7.5 acres would measure to be 326,700 square feet.

Now if learning the square footage doesn’t really help you visualize exactly how big seven and a half acres of land is, then you’re not alone. Later on in this article, we’ll provide easy to follow examples to help you visualize what you’ll actually be getting.

Why 326,700 Square Feet?

Measuring for one acre, the formula is to multiply a furlong by a chain, so 660 by 66. We touched on furlongs and chains in our post about how big .75 acres of land is, but here’s a quick refresher. A furlong is a distance measurement in which chains can be divided into. In other words, one furlong is 10 chains.

When you multiply 660 by 66, you get 43,560, as in 43,560 square feet per acre. Yet don’t forget that we’re talking about 7.5 acres, not 1 acre. If you multiply 43,560 by 7.5, you get 326,700 square feet.

Sure, it’s no 10 acres of land, which is an extra 110,000 square feet, but with 7.5 acres, you’d have more than enough land. We’ll offer some suggestions later on what you could do with 7.5 acres, so you’ll certainly want to check that out.

Visualizing 7.5 Acres of Land: 5 Examples

Are you scratching your head trying to come up with the closest example of what 7.5 acres is the equivalent of? This is a lot to visualize, so allow us to help you paint a clearer picture of how much land you’d have to your name.

 5.67 Football Fields

When you settle in on your favorite spot on the couch every Sunday for some NFL football, your television belies the true size of the field. It’s slightly more than an acre, as a football field measures 48,000 square feet.

The full expanse of your 7.5 acres is enough for about 5 2/3 football fields. Imagine five games of football being played simultaneously. That’s a lot of space such a feat would require, and you’d have that much land available.

About 116 Tennis Courts

Continuing with the sports examples, tennis is another popular game that lots of people clamber to see when it’s on TV. The size of a tennis court, in comparison to a football field, is much smaller. The average court is merely 2,808 square feet.

On your 7.5 acres of land, you’d have enough room for approximately 116.32 tennis courts if you filled all 326,700 square feet with nothing but. That’s even more courts than what the US Open has!

More Than 1,200 Parking Spaces

Need somewhere to park your car? You wouldn’t as the proud owner of 7.5 acres. The Center for Profitable Agriculture at the University of Tennessee has already established that you could fit 162 parking spaces on one acre if you accommodate for driving lanes as well.

If we increase 162 by 7.5 times, then you would be able to fit 1,215 parking spaces in your 7.5 acres.

Nearly 131 Homes That Are 2,500 Square Feet A piece

In some parts of the United States, a 2,500-square foot home is generous, while in other areas, it’s considered average. If you’ve always wished to live in such a spacious home yourself, you wouldn’t have to stop at just one house with 7.5 acres of land.

Across all 326,700 square feet, you could fit exactly 130.68 homes, which we’ll round down to 130 since you can’t build half a house. The average number of homes that constitutes a neighborhood is 50, so you would be able to have your own neighborhood on your 7.5 acres!

How Long Does It Take to Walk Across 7.5 Acres?

Maybe you’re wondering how long it would take to stroll around the perimeter of your property? Are you going to work up a sweat when you walk or can you get around 7.5 acres relatively quickly?

If you’re moving at a standard pace of 3 hour, then it shouldn’t take you long to walk across your 7.5 acres. You can complete a single acre at that speed in only 3 minutes.

For you seven and a half acres, it would take you a little over 8 minutes. That’d be a fairly short walk.

What Can You Do with 7.5 Acres of Land? 

As we said we would, let’s wrap up by discussing several ideas for how you can make the best use of your spacious amount of land. Whether you want to live comfortably or make a profit on your 7.5 acres, the potential is nearly endless.

Open a Farm

You don’t need hundreds of acres to run a farm. Although yours would be small, you’d have enough space for livestock and plants that grow fruit and vegetables on your 7.5 acres. You’d even be able to build a house on the property so you can live and work in the same space.

Start a Neighborhood

As we said earlier, it takes 50 homes to be recognized as a neighborhood, but with room for about 130 homes that are 2,500 square feet a piece, you’d have your own mini neighborhood. Since there would be more than enough homes for all your friends and family to live in, you could sell or rent the other houses and earn some cash.

Make Your Own Football Stadium

Football stadiums rake in the big bucks, like hundreds of millions of dollars per year. If you built a football stadium in a city or town that otherwise doesn’t have one, you’ll undoubtedly attract attention. Who knows, maybe someday an NFL team could come to your stadium and play there in an official capacity?

Final Thoughts

Owning 7.5 acres means you have 326,700 square feet to account for. You can fit more than five football fields, over 130 2,500-square-foot homes, not to mention over 1,200 parking spaces. Whatever you use your 7.5 acres for, you really can’t go wrong.

 

Geoff

Geoff Southworth is the creator of RealEstateInfoGuide.com, the site that helps new homeowners, investors, and homeowners-to-be successfully navigate the complex world of property ownership. Geoff is a real estate investor of 8 years has had experience as a manager of a debt-free, private real estate equity fund, as well as a Registered Nurse in Emergency Trauma and Cardiac Cath Lab Care. As a result, he has developed a unique “people first, business second” approach to real estate.

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