Convert pound to US short ton
1 lb = 0.0005 ton
1 lb = 0.0005 ton
1 lb in every mass unit
| unified atomic mass unit (dalton) | 2.7316e+26 u |
| picogram | 453,590,000,000,000 pg |
| nanogram | 453,590,000,000 ng |
| microgram | 453,590,000 μg |
| milligram | 453,590 mg |
| centigram | 45,359 cg |
| grain | 7,000 gr |
| metric carat | 2,268 ct |
| gram | 453.59 g |
| pennyweight | 291.67 dwt |
| dram | 256 dr |
| ounce | 16 oz |
| troy ounce | 14.583 oz t |
| troy pound | 1.2153 lb t |
| pound | 1 lb |
| kilogram | 0.45359 kg |
| stone | 0.071429 st |
| slug | 0.031081 slug |
| US hundredweight | 0.01 cwt |
| UK long hundredweight | 0.0089286 cwt (UK) |
| quintal | 0.0045359 q |
| US short ton | 0.0005 ton |
| metric tonne | 0.00045359 t |
| UK long ton | 0.00044643 long ton |
| kilotonne | 4.5359e-07 kt |
| megatonne | 4.5359e-10 Mt |
| gigatonne | 4.5359e-13 Gt |
| Earth mass | 7.5951e-26 Mearth |
| solar mass | 2.2812e-31 Msun |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 0.0005 to go from pound to US short ton, or divide by it to go back. Every conversion on this site routes through the SI value (kg) rather than a table of pairwise factors, so a round-trip returns exactly what you started with.
Going the other way? US short ton to pound — 1 ton = 2,000 lb.
pound to US short ton — common values
| 1 lb | 0.0005 ton |
| 2 lb | 0.001 ton |
| 3 lb | 0.0015 ton |
| 5 lb | 0.0025 ton |
| 10 lb | 0.005 ton |
| 15 lb | 0.0075 ton |
| 20 lb | 0.01 ton |
| 25 lb | 0.0125 ton |
| 50 lb | 0.025 ton |
| 75 lb | 0.0375 ton |
| 100 lb | 0.05 ton |
| 250 lb | 0.125 ton |
| 500 lb | 0.25 ton |
| 1000 lb | 0.5 ton |