What's a typical height (cm) in the US?
Median is 170 cm. Most people fall between 164 cm and 177 cm. Above 183 cm is top-10%.
What's a typical height (cm)?
The median US adult lands at 170 cm for height (cm). The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 164 cm to 177 cm. Below 159 cm you're in the bottom 10%; above 183 cm 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.