How many officials are there?

sj · #1 (**permalink**) Thu Dec 07, 2006, 03:36pm

Does anybody know approximately how many football officials there are nationwide?

Thanks

Rick KY · #2 (**permalink**) Thu Dec 07, 2006, 04:44pm

In KY, there were 572 officials who took the part II exam.

JugglingReferee · #3 (**permalink**) Thu Dec 07, 2006, 07:27pm

~ 600 in Ontario. Less than that in the rest of Canada. ~ 17 in PEI.

bisonlj · #4 (**permalink**) Thu Dec 07, 2006, 08:12pm

I believe there are about 800 hs varsity officials in Indiana and I would estimate another 25-50 licensed officials who are not on a varsity crew. The number would be slighly larger if you included college or pro officials that do not work high school.

MJT · #5 (**permalink**) Fri Dec 08, 2006, 12:06pm

This year 1581 certified FB officials in Iowa.

AndrewMcCarthy · #6 (**permalink**) Fri Dec 08, 2006, 02:47pm

From some numbers I've seen it sounds like around 130 officials for every 1 million in population is about right. This seems to jive for our association and for other numbers I've seen (but the Iowa number above seems way high for some reason).

If you use that you'd get 39,000 football officials in the US.

I would think the NF would have a number- I wonder how that compares.

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