Visualizing the Population of Wisconsin:

How much space you'd need to store every Wisconsinite

There are times -- perhaps when you're stuck in Milwaukee rush hour traffic -- where it can feel like the whole state of Wisconsin is right in the same place as you are. Well, what if they were? What would that look like? If you got every Wisconsinite in the same place -- all 5.7 million of them -- how much space would they take up?

It's a trickier question than it sounds, and we wanted to answer this ridiculous question with some degree of accuracy. So we needed to figure in size differences between men, women, and children. And then, what do we do about all those 'plus sized' Wisconsinites? 31.2% if the state is obese, after all.

We love challenging questions like this, so we pulled down demographic data on age, gender, and obesity in Wisconsin to get a more accurate answer to our ridiculous question. Then, we mapped out how much of Milwaukee everyone would take up, and calculated how many Empire Sate Buildings Wisconsinites would fill. And finally, because we're SpareFoot, we also figured out how many Wisconsin storage units you'd need to store every Wisconsin. Check out our infographic below:

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<p><a href='https://www.sparefoot.com/wisconsin-storage.html'><img src='https://www.sparefoot.com/self-storage/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/storing-wisconsin.jpg' max-width='1000px' title='Storing Wisconsin' alt='Wisconsin storage' border='0' /></a></p><p>Via <a href='https://www.sparefoot.com/Wisconsin-storage.html'>SpareFoot Wisconsin Storage</a></p>