Time Outdoors Percentile Calculator
Compare your daily outdoor time with the broad categories reported by the National Recreation and Park Association’s 2021 U.S. adult poll.
National Recreation and Park Association — U.S. Adults Value Time Spent Outside
The October 2021 NRPA article reports that 96% of U.S. adults spend some time outdoors daily, more than half spend over 30 minutes, and 33% spend over one hour. Humanlytic preserves those boundaries and does not invent a continuous distribution. The public article does not provide the poll sample size or field dates.
What this calculator measures
Compare your daily outdoor time with the broad categories reported by the National Recreation and Park Association’s 2021 U.S. adult poll. The comparison uses the reference population and evidence identified on this page.
How to interpret your result
A percentile describes the approximate percentage of the stated reference population with a lower value. When a source supports only categories, medians, or averages, Humanlytic shows that broader comparison instead of inventing an exact percentile.
How this works
Evidence quality
Calculated from survey data
Method
Humanlytic preserves NRPA’s three published boundaries: 4% report no daily outdoor time, more than half report over 30 minutes, and 33% report over one hour. Results are broad categories or conservative percentile bounds; no normal distribution, invented category share, or within-group interpolation is used.
Data source
National Recreation and Park Association — U.S. Adults Value Time Spent Outside (2021)
Limitations
NRPA reports only three broad boundaries: 4% spent no time outdoors daily, more than half spent more than 30 minutes, and 33% spent more than one hour. Humanlytic therefore reports categories and conservative percentile bounds—not exact ranks or a continuous distribution. The public article does not state the poll sample size or field dates.