What's a typical hours of sleep in the US?
Median is 7.0 hrs. Most people fall between 6.5 hrs and 8.0 hrs. Above 8.5 hrs is top-10%.
What's a typical hours of sleep?
The median US adult lands at 7.0 hrs for hours of sleep. The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 6.5 hrs to 8.0 hrs. Below 5.5 hrs you're in the bottom 10%; above 8.5 hrs 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.