In our recent posts about land acreage, we’ve talked about small areas that are under an acre in size. Perhaps you’re shopping around for some land and you found a property that’s significantly larger, around 2.5 acres. Exactly how big is this?
One acre measures 43,560 square feet, so with 2.5 acres, the available amount of land would be 108,900 square feet. Now we’re into six-figure square footage territory, which means you’d have room for at least two football fields.
Maybe seeing the square footage doesn’t really help you visualize precisely how large 2.5 acres of land is. If so, then you’ll want to keep reading for plenty of examples of what you can fit on that much land. We’ll even tell you how long it takes to walk across 2.5 acres.
Why 108,900 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. By doubling that, you have 87,120 square feet. Yet don’t forget that we’re talking about 2.5 acres, not 2 acres. Adding that extra bit of acreage to our calculations brings us to the gargantuan 108,900 square feet.
Sure, it’s no 10 acres of land, which is an insane 435,600 square feet, but with 2.5 acres, you’d have more than enough land. We’ll offer some suggestions later on what you could do with 2.5 acres, so you’ll certainly want to check that out.
Visualizing 2.5 Acres of Land: 7 Cool Examples
Are you scratching your head trying to come up with the closest example of what 2.5 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.
2.26 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 2.5 acres is enough for 2.2 football fields. Imagine two 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.
Almost 40 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 2.5 acres of land, you’d have enough room for approximately 38.78 tennis courts if you filled all 108,900 square feet with nothing but. That’s even more courts than what the US Open has!
More Than 350 Parking Spaces
Need somewhere to park your car? You wouldn’t as the proud owner of 2.5 acres. The Center for Profitable Agriculture at the University of Tennessee has already established that you could fit 156 parking spaces on one acre if you accommodate for driving lanes as well.
Doubling that gives you 312 parking spaces, but you still have more acres to fill from there, so the total amount of spaces available to you would be 390.
Over 3,900 Potatoes
In our article on the square footage of .75 acres, we talked about planting upwards of four potatoes per square foot of land. Yet what if you took all your harvested potatoes and laid them out in a line? If you had one acre of land, you could create a line that’s 1,584 potatoes deep. With 2.5 acres, it’s 3,960 spuds.
More Than 1.7 Million Sticky Notes
Got sticky notes? Although this is a strange example, we talked on the blog about how many sticky notes could cover an acre of land, so we thought we’d do the same for 2.5 acres. A single acre can accommodate 696,960 sticky notes, which is really just an obscene number.
Yet more than doubling it means you could fit over 1.7 million sticky notes on your 2.5 acres of land. You’d have to buy out the office supply store’s stock of sticky notes if you wanted to cover your land in them.
Nearly 45 Homes That Are 2,500 Square Feet Apiece
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 2.5 acres of land.
Across all 108,900 square feet, you could fit exactly 43.56 homes, which we’ll round down to 43. The average number of homes that constitutes a neighborhood is 50, so you’d practically be able to have your own neighborhood on your 2.5 acres!
6.9 Million Chicken Nuggets
Our last example is a doozy. Like the sticky notes comparison, you don’t measure land in chicken nuggets, or really measure anything in chicken nuggets. Yet if you wanted to, the average amount of chicken nuggets you could fit on an acre of land is 2,787,840.
Since your land acreage is 2.5 acres, you’d have the room for a whopping 6,969,600 chicken nuggets! We hope you’re hungry.
How Long Does It Take to Walk Across 2.5 Acres?
Maybe thinking about all those chicken nuggets has you in the mood to take a walk. Why not stroll through your own property? Are you going to work up a sweat when you walk or can you get through 2.5 acres relatively quickly?
If you’re moving at a standard pace of 3 to 4 miles per hour, then it shouldn’t take you long to walk across your 2.5 acres. You can complete a single acre at that speed in only 35.61 seconds, which is 36 seconds when you round it up.
Multiplying 36 by 2.5 gives us 90, which is 1.5 minutes. That’d be a pretty short walk.
What Can You Do with 2.5 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 2.5 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 2.5 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 Mini Neighborhood
As we said earlier, it takes 50 homes to be recognized as a neighborhood, but with room for more than 40 homes that are 2,500 square feet apiece, 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 2.5 acres means you have 108,900 square feet to account for. You can fit more than two football fields, over two dozen 2,500-square-foot homes, not to mention millions of sticky notes and chicken nuggets. Whatever you use your 2.5 acres for, you really can’t go wrong.