With huge Saturday attendance, 2022 Iowa State Fair crowd has already topped 1 million
The 2022 Iowa State Fair attendance on Day 10 was nearly 130,000 people.
Saturday saw 128,298 fairgoers through the gates, more than 10,000 more than the same day last year and setting a record for single day attendance.
Attendance to the 2022 fair has already topped 1 million, coming in at 1,016,917 with one day to go.
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The fair first topped 1 million visitors in 2002, with 1,008,174 fairgoers, and has surpassed the mark each year since except for 2010 when 967,381 went through the gates. The all-time attendance record of 1,170,375 was set in 2019; that figure broke the previous record of 1,130,260, a mark set in 2018.
The 2020 fair was canceled due to COVID-19. In its return in 2021 it drew 1,094,480 people, about 6.5% less than 2019's record but still the seventh-largest figure in the fair's history.
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Here's how 2022 attendance compares to 2021
Day: 2022 (2021)
Thursday: 82,862 (77,700)
Friday: 103,556 (104,177)
Saturday: 113,012 (111,603)
Sunday: 110,661 (107,410)
Monday: 87,599 (95,621)
Tuesday: 99,965 (90,688)
Wednesday: 97,901 (91,510)
Thursday: 99,715 (96,064)
Friday: 93,348 (101,952)
Saturday: 128,298 (117,764)
Sunday: TBD (99,991)
Total: TBD (1,094,480)
Daily attendance records
First Thursday: 101,262 in 2008
First Friday: 115,703 in 2001
First Saturday: 127,277 in 1991
First Sunday: 112,396 in 2017
Monday: 105,522 in 2017
Tuesday: 102,953 in 2019
Wednesday: 109,323 in 2019
Second Thursday: 107,449 in 2015
Second Friday: 112,891 in 2019
Second Saturday: 120,616 in 2017
Second Sunday: 119,754 in 2012
Attendance figures for last 10 Iowa State Fairs
2021: 1,094,480
2020: Canceled due to COVID-19
2019: 1,170,375
2018: 1,130,260
2017: 1,130,071
2016: 1,031,278
2015: 1,117,398
2014: 1,015,902
2013: 1,047,246
2012: 1,097,142
2011: 1,080,959
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2019: 1,170,375
2018: 1,130,260
2017: 1,130,071
2015: 1,117,398
2008: 1,109,150
2012: 1,097,142
2021: 1,094,480
2011: 1,080,959
2004: 1,053,978
2013: 1,047,246
2016: 1,031,278
2014: 1,015,902
2006: 1,013,557
2003: 1,012,309
2002: 1,008,174
2009: 1,006,501
2005: 1,005,238
2007: 1,003,210
2001: 985,780
2000: 978,841
Source: Iowa State Fair
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