Demographics

• Average Age of a Fairgoer - 37 years old
• 42% of Children are between the ages of 11 and 15
• 88% of Fairgoers reside in Wisconsin – one half of that live in Metro Milwaukee
• Average Visits to the Fair - 2 times
• Average Hours Spent at the Fair - 6 hours

Attendance Records

• Total Attendance Record: 938,658 – 1990
• Opening Day Record: 70,043 – 2004
• Opening Friday Record: 85,425 – 2004
• Opening Saturday: 119,794 – 1992
• Opening Sunday: 105,327 – 1993
• Monday: 97,994 – 1989
• Tuesday: 156,244 – 2000 **
• Wednesday: 108,368 – 1987
• Second Thursday: 91,806 – 1994
• Second Friday: 104,876 – 2002
• Second Saturday: 120,726 – 2002
• Second Sunday: 100,269 – 2003

Records date back to 1983

**Included free gate admission

2006 Grandstand

• 65,000 Miller Lite Main Stage Attendance

Food

• 360,707 Original Cream Puffs Sold
• 19,085 Blue Ribbon Brownies sold
• 42 Foods on a Stick
• 160,000 Glasses of Milk sold at Herb Kohl’s Milkhouse
• 58,000 Baked Potatoes sold in WPP
• 110,000 New Berlin Lions Club Roasted Corn
• 190, 416 Bottles of Water Consumed
• 42,000 pork chop sandwiches by the Wisconsin Pork Producers
• 3300 Marshmallows on a stick sold by Ultimate Confections
• 5100 omelets by Wisconsin Poultry Producers
  

2006 Fun Facts

• 38 Years of performances by the Kids From Wisconsin
• 295 animals born in the Birthing Barn (6 calves, 217 piglets, 20 lambs, 30 ducks, 6 goats, 14 chicks)
• 40,000 people visited the Pettit National Ice Center Cool Zone
• 98,000 pounds of food donated to Hunger Task Force on Opening Day
• 100,000 rides down the Giant Slide