DES MOINES, Iowa — Nothing compares to the Iowa State Fair, and the 2017 Iowa State Fair was a chart topper.
For eleven nearly perfect days for an August in Iowa, an estimated, unaudited 1,130,071 of people visited the 2017 Iowa State Fair. The 2017 numbers toppled the 1,117,398 attendance number from 2015. This year was up from the 2016 total of 1,031,278 with both Saturdays in 2017 alone topping 120,000 attendees.
A breakdown of the record setting daily attendance for 2017 is listed below:
Thursday, August 10 – 86,408
Friday, August 11 – 103,424
Saturday, August 12 – 120,833
Sunday, August 13 – 112,396
Monday, August 14 – 105,522
Tuesday, August 15 – 96,863
Wednesday, August 16 – 95,322
Thursday, August 17 – 96,015
Friday, August 18 – 97,958
Saturday, August 19 – 120,616
Sunday, August 20 – 94,714
The Iowa State Fair, started in 1854, first topped the million attendee mark in 2002 and has experienced slight ups and downs in attendance since. Long standing attendance record 1,109,150 set in 2008 was recently topped in 2015 with 1,117,398.
The 2017 Iowa State Fair was held August 10-20. Plans are already in the works for the 2018 Iowa State Fair set for August 9–19, 2018.
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