Square Feet to Square Yards

Common questions

How many square feet are in a square yard?

Nine, exactly. A yard is exactly 3 feet, and squaring both sides gives 3 times 3, so a square yard is 9 square feet with nothing rounded away. Both units are defined from the metre here: a square yard is exactly 0.83612736 m² and a square foot exactly 0.09290304 m², and the first divides by the second exactly 9 times. Type 9 in the From box and the headline reads 1 square yard, not 0.99999.

How do I convert square feet to square yards?

Divide by 9. A 100 square foot area is 11.1111111111 sq yd, 500 sq ft is 55.5555555556 sq yd, and 1,200 sq ft is 133.333333333 sq yd. Going the other way multiplies by 9, so 20 square yards is 180 square feet. The swap button between the two boxes flips the pair when you want to type square yards instead, and the answer updates as you type.

My room is 12 feet by 15 feet. How many square yards is that?

For a rectangle with supplied perpendicular international-foot sides, 12 × 15 = 180 ft² = exactly 20 yd². Similarly, 10 × 12 = 120 ft² displays as 13.3333333333 yd², and 12 × 9 = 108 ft² = exactly 12 yd². Two dimensions alone do not establish an irregular room’s area. Unit Converter takes a supplied area scalar; Square Footage Calculator supports rectangular dimensions and added areas. It does not measure a floor or establish an order quantity.

Is a square yard the same as a cubic yard?

Square yard measures area, exactly 9 international square feet. Cubic yard measures volume, exactly 27 international cubic feet. To obtain volume from a supplied uniform area and perpendicular depth, multiply in matching units: 1 yd² × 1 yd = 1 yd³. This converter performs neither dimension multiplication nor an area-to-volume conversion. Concrete Slab Calculator and the box mode of Volume Calculator support supplied rectangular length, width and depth; material names do not establish dimensions or quantity requirements.

Why does 1 square foot come out as 0.111111111111 square yards?

Because it is one ninth, and one ninth in decimal is 0.111 repeating for ever. The page prints twelve significant digits and stops there, which is well inside what the arithmetic carries. Areas that land on a whole number of square yards still come back clean: 9 sq ft reads 1, 90 sq ft reads 10 and 900 sq ft reads 100, because the converter divides by the exact unit definitions rather than by a rounded 0.1111.

How do I convert square yards back to square feet?

Press the swap button between the two boxes and the page becomes a square yards to square feet converter: 1 yd² gives 9 ft², 10 yd² gives 90 ft² and 100 yd² gives 900 ft². Both unit menus remain available, so the same number will go from square yards to square metres, acres or square inches without leaving the page.

Carpet is priced per square yard. How many yards do I need for 500 square feet?

A supplied area of 500 ft² displays as 55.5555555556 yd². That is a converted area; it does not establish purchasable roll length, roll width, layout, offcuts, pattern matching or an allowance. Those require separately supplied specifications. The converter has no carpet-order model.

Can I see the same area in square metres?

Yes, without changing anything. Square metres are one of the rows under the result, so 500 sq ft reads 46.45152 m² and 1,200 sq ft reads 111.483648 m², and choosing Square meter in either box makes it the headline instead. Square centimetres, square inches, hectares, square kilometres, acres and square miles are listed at the same time. Square millimetres are the only area unit hidden by default, behind the Show 1 more switch in the readout, while both menus include it at all times.

Is the area I type sent anywhere?

Your input and converted values are calculated in the browser and are not uploaded by the converter. The definitions arrive with the page, so conversion needs no external data lookup and keeps working offline after the page has loaded. The core conversion needs no account. This focused page opens on Square foot (ft²) to Square yard (yd²), while preserving the main converter’s saved unit pair. When storage is usable, a saved value and uncommon-unit preference can travel between pages. Its suffix must still match From. Valid deliberate scalar edits can save those fields after a short delay; invalid or incomplete drafts preserve the saved record. Unusable or conflicting records remain until you use Forget saved settings, which keeps the current conversion on screen. Copy result copies the displayed headline without digit-grouping commas; each visible conversion row has its own Copy button. Displayed and copied values round to twelve significant digits. If native copying fails, a complete selectable summary identifies the input, selected pair and conventions and includes every unit in the category, including uncommon units.