100 PEOPLE PER ACRE
RATIOS
Factoid: A very general rule of thumb is that suburban churches may grow to an average Sunday morning worship attendance of one hundred times the number of acres of land. A church with a five-acre campus probably will not exceed five hundred in attendance.
Source: (Anderson, Leith. A Church for the 21st Century. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1992, p. 91. )