What's a typical close friends in the US?
Median is 3 friends. Most people fall between 2 friends and 5 friends. Above 8 friends is top-10%.
What's a typical close friends?
The median US adult lands at 3 friends for close friends. The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 2 friends to 5 friends. Below 1 friends you're in the bottom 10%; above 8 friends you're in the top 10%.
How we computed this
We anchor at p1, p5, p10, p25, p50, p75, p90, p95, and p99 from public-data sources and linearly interpolate between them. See methodology for the full chain.