Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Connecticut: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Connecticut: 2000
| Federal-aid urbanized area1 | Total roadway miles | Total DVMT (thousands) | Estimated population (thousands) | Net land area (square miles) | Persons per square mile | Miles of roadway per thousand persons | Total DVMT per capita | Total estimated freeway lane miles2 | Average daily traffic per freeway lane mile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield, MA-CT | 2,928 | 13,124 | 608 | 422 | 1,441 | 4.8 | 21.6 | 388 | 10,947 |
| Hartford-Middletown | 2,597 | 16,187 | 602 | 366 | 1,645 | 4.3 | 26.9 | 618 | 13,607 |
| New Haven-Meriden | 1,873 | 10,431 | 463 | 230 | 2,013 | 4.0 | 22.5 | 380 | 14,161 |
| Bridgeport-Milford | 1,796 | 8,614 | 430 | 178 | 2,416 | 4.2 | 20.0 | 301 | 14,973 |
| Worcester, MA-CT | 1,805 | 9,388 | 358 | 263 | 1,361 | 5.0 | 26.2 | 365 | 11,226 |
| Stamford, CT-NY | 719 | 4,573 | 201 | 82 | 2,451 | 3.6 | 22.8 | 119 | 19,945 |
| Waterbury | 749 | 3,206 | 182 | 89 | 2,045 | 4.1 | 17.6 | 106 | 13,743 |
| New London-Norwich | 973 | 5,032 | 171 | 169 | 1,012 | 5.7 | 29.4 | 220 | 11,543 |
| Danbury | 869 | 4,110 | 157 | 136 | 1,154 | 5.5 | 26.2 | 103 | 14,925 |
| New Britain | 585 | 3,261 | 143 | 67 | 2,134 | 4.1 | 22.8 | 137 | 12,460 |
| Norwalk | 480 | 3,323 | 115 | 50 | 2,300 | 4.2 | 28.9 | 103 | 17,431 |
| Bristol | 359 | 1,011 | 75 | 45 | 1,667 | 4.8 | 13.5 | 18 | 5,438 |
1 A "federal-aid urbanized area" is an area with 50,000 or more persons that, at a minimum, encompasses the land area delineated as the urbanized area by the U.S. Census Bureau. Areas are ranked by population. 2 Lane miles estimated by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
KEY: DVMT = daily vehicle-miles of travel.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics, 2000, Washington, DC: 2001, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohimstat.htm as of Dec. 6, 2001.