Per metric · 2026-04-27

What's a typical unread emails in the US?

Median is 250 emails. Most people fall between 30 emails and 2,000 emails. Above 15,000 emails is top-10%.

What's a typical unread emails?

The median US adult lands at 250 emails for unread emails. The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 30 emails to 2,000 emails. Below 3 emails you're in the bottom 10%; above 15,000 emails 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.

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