From the cost of this year's dinner to travel predictions, here are the numbers you need to know for Thanksgiving this year.
Here's a look at Thanksgiving 2015 by the numbers.
Total turkeys consumed on Thanksgiving day: 51,150,000. That's about 20 percent of the turkeys raised in the U.S. in 2015.
For the first time ever, the average cost of Thanksgiving dinner is over $50.
Blame the turkey. The average cost of the bird went up by $1.39 to $23.04.
In total, people will spend $2.8 billion on food for Thanksgiving.
In 2014, 46.3 million people traveled on the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The average distance was 549 miles round-trip.
Of those folks, 7.7 percent chose to fly, and 89.1 percent traveled by auto.
With gas prices below $2 per gallon in 41 states, we can expect statistics to skew the same way for 2015.
See more at newsy.com.
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