How big is 1,000 square feet?

One-thousand square feet is approximately one-fiftieth the area of an NFL standard football field. It is also equivalent to the area that would be covered by 1,540 sheets of 8 1/2-inch by 11-inch paper laid edge to edge.

One-thousand square feet is equivalent to about 93 square meters or 0.00003 square miles. To walk all the way around a square with an area of 1,000 square feet would take about 14 seconds at a slow pace of 3 mph. In 2013, the average size of a newly built single-family house in America was 2,679 square feet, which is more than two and a half times as big as 1,000 square feet.