How many 60 lb bags of concrete are in a cubic yard?
One cubic yard takes 60 bags of 60 lb concrete mix, or 66 bags with 10% waste. A 60 lb bag of QUIKRETE Concrete Mix yields about 0.45 cu ft: 27 ÷ 0.45 = 60.
60 lb bags for partial yards
| Concrete needed | Bags, no waste | Bags with 10% |
|---|---|---|
| ¼ cu yd (6.75 cu ft) | 15 | 17 |
| ½ cu yd | 30 | 33 |
| ¾ cu yd | 45 | 50 |
| 1 cu yd | 60 | 66 |
| 1½ cu yd | 90 | 99 |
| 2 cu yd | 120 | 132 |
Round post holes
Full cylinder, no post deducted, as in the bag calculator's post-hole mode.
| Hole | Volume (cu ft) | 60 lb bags |
|---|---|---|
| 10 in wide × 24 in deep | 1.09 | 3 |
| 10 in × 30 in | 1.36 | 4 |
| 10 in × 36 in | 1.64 | 4 |
| 12 in × 36 in | 2.36 | 6 |
How we worked it out
- Bags = cubic feet ÷ 0.45, rounded up.
- Sixty 60 lb bags weigh 3,600 lb, the same as forty-five 80 lb bags, because both sizes yield 133 lb per cubic foot.
- A QUIKRETE pallet of 60 lb bags holds 56 bags (25.2 cu ft).
Questions
How many 60 lb bags of concrete for a 10x10 slab?
At 4 in deep: 75 bags before waste (33.33 cu ft ÷ 0.45 = 74.1, rounded up), or 82 with 10% waste.
How many 60 lb bags of concrete in a cubic yard?
60 bags before waste.
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Sources
QUIKRETE Concrete Mix yields; other products differ — check your bag.
Values marked with a link come from the linked source, which opens in a new tab. Unit conversions and our own defaults are listed separately. Every value the site uses is in the methodology source register.
Where the numbers come from 6
- 80 lb concrete bag yield
- 0.6 cu ft/bag
- QUIKRETE Concrete Mix No. 1101 data sheet (revised October 2022) (opens in a new tab)quikrete.com · PDF
- 60 lb concrete bag yield
- 0.45 cu ft/bag
- QUIKRETE Concrete Mix No. 1101 data sheet (revised October 2022) (opens in a new tab)quikrete.com · PDF
- 50 lb concrete bag yield
- 0.375 cu ft/bag
- QUIKRETE Concrete Mix No. 1101 data sheet (revised October 2022) (opens in a new tab)quikrete.com · PDF
- 40 lb concrete bag yield
- 0.3 cu ft/bag
- QUIKRETE Concrete Mix No. 1101 data sheet (revised October 2022) (opens in a new tab)quikrete.com · PDF
- 90 lb concrete bag yield
- 0.675 cu ft/bag
- QUIKRETE Concrete Mix No. 1101 data sheet (revised October 2022) (opens in a new tab)quikrete.com · PDF
- 60 lb Concrete Mix bags per pallet
- 56 bags/pallet
- QUIKRETE Concrete Mix retail page (Lowe's), product 1101: "56 per pallet (SKU #10387)" (opens in a new tab)quikrete.com
Unit conversions and our defaults5
- Cubic feet per cubic yard
- 27 cu ft/cu yd
- Geometry: 3 × 3 × 3 feet
- Inches per foot
- 12 in/ft
- Unit definition: one foot contains twelve inches
- Circle constant π
- ≈ 3.14159 unitless
- Circle geometry, as specified in the owner brief
- Cubic inches per cubic foot
- 1728 cu in/cu ft
- Geometry: 12 × 12 × 12 inches
- Bag concrete waste default
- 10 %
- Owner planning default; editable
By Taimoor Zayad, DAE in Civil Engineering, three years as a site supervisor.Last updated How we calculate