What is the average height for US women? My sister and I have an

[patricia92243]

argument about it. She says 5'3". I say 5'6".

I'm not very good at researching things on Google, and I hoped somebody here might know.

[Nye Bevan]

1. 5' 4"

http://www.usmedicine.com/dailyNews.cfm?dailyID=218

[KitchenWitch]

2. According to the CDC

Mean height of a 19 year old woman in 2002 is 64.2 inches (or 5'4.2")

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. 5'4?

I'm a freak. :cry:

[KitchenWitch]

4. How tall are you?

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. 5'9

Maybe 5'9 1/2. I haven't checked for a while.

[KitchenWitch]

6. I am a bigger freak

I am 6'3"

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. Wow

How do you find shirts? All shirts always ride high on my waist. No I don't want to show my midriff thank you very much. x(

[KitchenWitch]

13. Usually I buy men's shirts

Sleeves are long enough and I do not have that ridey uppy thing.

I have extremely long legs, so the shirts do not always ride up..

[RevolutionaryActs]

14. Ahhhh

I have a friend who's 6 foot and she's all legs.... the beotch. ;)

[KitchenWitch]

15. LOL

my inseam is 40" - good fucking luck finding pants LOL

[Maine-ah]

26. yeah, well I'm a smaller freak

4'11". :P

[miss_kitty]

7. Don't cry Revolutionary_Acts, I am a freak too

I'm 5'2"

:P

[RevolutionaryActs]

12. Oooh you are a freak....

but not because you're 5'2. :silly:

[Bok_Tukalo]

18. Yes. You are a freak.

[RevolutionaryActs]

20. HAHAHAHA!

You're a freak too. :P

[Bok_Tukalo]

23. Nonsense

I am perfectly ordinary in every way.

[SarahB]

22. Cool!

I'm 3/10th of an inch taller than average. Woo hoo! :bounce:

[Bok_Tukalo]

25. I'm happy. I would be above average if I were Dutch

<ope>

[RevCheesehead]

8. I think height varies greatly, depending on where you live.

I'm 5'9" - when I lived in NC, I towered about all the women, and most of the men. But now I'm back in WI, and my height is not unusual at all. I guess Germans and Norwegians are taller.

[KitchenWitch]

10. I am in Minnesota

and being tall is not unusual here...

[mcscajun]

24. They sure are taller.

My family is German-Norwegian-Irish. Four sisters. "Shorty" is 5'9" -- I'm 6'1".

Gotta expect that when German grandfather was 6'6". :)

Visiting The Netherlands was marvelous = nearly EVERYONE there was tall as me and taller. :)

[LSdemocrat]

11. She's closer: it's 5'3.7"

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/bodymeas.htm

Women:
Height: 63.7 inches
Weight: 152 lbs

[Canadian Socialist]

16. Interesting article in this week's Macleans

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/science/article.jsp?content=20050404_103140_103140

[ltfranklin]

17. It depends...

on the height of the Glass Ceiling in their vicinity.

[WindRavenX]

19. damn. I'm short. 4'11''

Go me!

[otohara]

21. I'm A Wee Taller

1 inch...