KUSA – Early estimates say one million people were downtown Tuesday for the Denver Broncos Super Bowl Parade and Rally.
Some have questioned these numbers.
So, 9NEWS tried to do the math on our own.
When calculating the most densely-packed crowds, folks typically estimate each person uses roughly 2.5 feet of space.
Using Google Earth, we determined Civic Center Park – including the streets and other spaces we saw people standing – measured out to roughly 1.2 million square feet.
Divide that by 2.5 and you’ve got 480,000 people.
We used that same math to determine the number of people along the parade route.
Google Earth estimated that the width of the sidewalk along the route was 40 feet wide. We multiplied that by the length of the parade route (1.3 miles) and arrived at 549,120 feet.
Divide that by 2.5 and we get an estimated 219,648 people along the parade route.
Add that to the total at Civic Center Park and you’ve got an estimated grand total of 699,648 people who attended Tuesday’s parade and rally.
That’s far from one million (but still a lot).
But this is our attempt at math, and we’re journalists – not mathematicians.
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