When you find yourself on the T at rush hour, crammed closer than you'd ever like to be against complete strangers, do you ever wonder to yourself, "Is every GD human in Mass. on this train right now?" Nope, and a company focused on self-storage did the math to prove it.
Sparefoot, an Austin-based company with an online marketplace that lets you compare and book storage spaces, pored over census information and data about age, gender and obesity in our state. Why? As the company wrote, it wanted to find out "if you got all 6.7 million Massachusettsans together in the same place at once, what would that look like? How much space would everyone take up?"
Turns out, it would be 1.07 square miles, an area that Sparefoot then laid over a map of Boston so we can grasp how much that it is. The North End, West End, Beacon Hill, Financial District, Downtown Crossing and Chinatown: All of them are tinged in a red haze of theoretically crowded hell.
The company went one step further, figuring out how many Empire State Buildings our entire state population would take up, as well as how many storage units we'd all fit in (which hopefully no one really wants to know).
Want to see for yourself? Check it out - numbers, maps and all.
