Number of people in World Trade Center

[RogueBandit]

I tried googling this question but got now results. Can someone help me?

How many people were in the World Trade Center when it was attacked?

I remember there were fewer than normal. My google search found one comment (from a "channeling" forum no less) that said in part, "The primary reason why more people weren't in their offices in the World Trade Center at that time was that it was election day."

That's an interesting statement, but I still don't have my answser.

Help? Anyone?

[Fresh_Start]

1. No one knows the number.

It included a transportation hub as well as office space and retail space.

[Fresh_Start]

4. Office space upto 50K for all the WTC buildings

passthrough population approaching 150K/day between visitors and commuters.

But how many total at that time on that morning, no one knows.

[LSK]

2. not sure of the number, but it was in the morning

And some people were not at work yet.

[Emit]

3. Here, according to wikipedia based on variety of sources

Fatalities
There were 2,974 fatalities, not including the 19 hijackers: 246 on the four planes (no one on board any of the hijacked aircraft survived),<21> 2,603 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon.<22> Among the fatalities were 343 New York City Fire Department firefighters, 23 New York City Police Department officers, and 37 Port Authority Police Department officers.<23> Lieutenant General Timothy Maude was the highest ranking person killed at the Pentagon<24> and John P. O'Neill was a former assistant director of the FBI who assisted in the capture of Ramzi Yousef and was the head of security at the World Trade Center when he was killed trying to rescue people from 2 WTC.<25> An additional 24 people remain listed as missing.<26>


World Trade Center
1366 people died who were at or above the floors of impact in the North Tower (1 WTC); according to the Commission Report, hundreds were killed instantly by the impact while the rest were trapped and died after the tower collapsed.<27>

As many as 600 people were killed instantly or trapped at or above the floors of impact in the South Tower (2 WTC). Only about 18 managed to escape in time from above the impact zone and out of the South Tower before it collapsed.

At least 200 people jumped to their deaths from the burning towers (as depicted in the photograph "The Falling Man"), landing on the streets and rooftops of adjacent buildings hundreds of feet below.<28> To witnesses watching, a few of the people falling from the towers seemed to have stumbled out of broken windows.<29> Some of the occupants of each tower above its point of impact made their way upward toward the roof in hope of helicopter rescue, however; no rescue plan existed for such an eventuality, the roof access doors were locked and thick smoke and intense heat would have prevented rescue helicopters from landing.<30>


Collection of photographs of those killed (excluding 92 victims) during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Prosecution exhibit from the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui.Fatalities (Not including the 19 hijackers)
New York City World Trade Center 2,603 died and another 24 remain listed as missing<31><26>
American 11 88<32>
United 175 59<33>
Arlington Pentagon 125<34>
American 77 59<35>
Shanksville United 93 40<36>
Total 2,974 died and another 24 remain listed as missing.

Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., an investment bank on the 101st–105th floors of One World Trade Center, lost 658 employees, considerably more than any other employer. Marsh Inc., located immediately below Cantor Fitzgerald on floors 93–101 (the location of Flight 11's impact), lost 295 employees, including one on Flight 175. Additionally, Marsh lost 38 consultants. Approximately 400 rescue workers, most of them of the FDNY, died when the towers collapsed.

According to the Associated Press, the city identified over 1,600 bodies but was unable to identify the rest (about 1,100 people). They report that the city has "about 10,000 unidentified bone and tissue fragments that cannot be matched to the list of the dead."<37> Bone fragments were still being found in 2006 as workers prepared the damaged Deutsche Bank Building for demolition. The average age of all the dead in New York City was 40.<38>

The dead included 8 children: 5 on American 77 ranging in age from 3 to 11, 3 on United 175 ages 2, 3, and 4.<39> The youngest victim was a 2 year-old child on Flight 175, the oldest an 82 year-old passenger on Flight 11. In the buildings, the youngest victim was 17 and the oldest was 79.<40>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks

[AZBlue]

5. I don't know if anyone really knows.

About 54,000 people worked there - but as one poster said, it was still early enough that not everyone was at work yet. According to the 9/11 commission, there were 16,000 people below the "impact zones" but that number seems a little low to me.

[onenote]

6. on any given day, somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 worked in the WTC complex

And one website (can't vouch for its accuracy) claims that by 9 am on most days around 35,000 would be at work. http://www.cojoweb.com/WTC.html

That suggests that each building could be expected to have somewhat fewer than 20,000 people inside at the time the first plane hit. On the morning of September 11 it the number of people in the buildings by 8:46 (the time the first plane hit) certainly was less than typical because (1) it was a primary election day and some people were late because they were voting; (2) it was the first day of school and some people were late because they were taking kids to school for first time.

[RogueBandit]

7. Thanks to everyone

No real answer but I guess there won't be one. What a great group of people DU has. Ask a question and get some answers! I love forums and blogs for news and info.