Per metric · 2026-04-27

What's a typical weekly takeout meals in the US?

Median is 3 meals. Most people fall between 1 meals and 5 meals. Above 7 meals is top-10%.

What's a typical weekly takeout meals?

The median US adult lands at 3 meals for weekly takeout meals. The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 1 meals to 5 meals. Below 0 meals you're in the bottom 10%; above 7 meals 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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