Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Florida: 2000
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Florida: 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 person | Total DVMT per capita | Total estimated freeway lane miles2 | Average daily traffic per freeway lane mile |
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Miami-Hialeah | 5,607 | 43,577 | 2,270 | 353 | 6,431 | 3 | 19 | 725 | 18,736 |
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater | 7,539 | 44,473 | 1,953 | 650 | 3,005 | 4 | 23 | 646 | 12,939 |
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood-Pompano Beach | 4,207 | 37,335 | 1,601 | 327 | 4,896 | 3 | 23 | 721 | 17,800 |
Orlando | 3,610 | 32,288 | 1,160 | 395 | 2,937 | 3 | 28 | 730 | 13,053 |
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach | 2,591 | 25,277 | 1,041 | 307 | 3,391 | 3 | 24 | 456 | 18,333 |
Jacksonville | 3,664 | 24,553 | 869 | 508 | 1,711 | 4 | 28 | 722 | 13,616 |
Sarasota-Bradenton | 2,059 | 9,866 | 537 | 193 | 2,782 | 4 | 18 | 59 | 11,914 |
Melbourne-Palm Bay | 1,669 | 8,922 | 365 | 233 | 1,567 | 5 | 24 | 47 | 9,772 |
Pensacola | 1,666 | 8,240 | 293 | 155 | 1,890 | 6 | 28 | 96 | 11,246 |
Fort Myers-Cape Coral | 1,364 | 6,758 | 290 | 124 | 2,339 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 14,435 |
Daytona Beach | 1,141 | 6,175 | 265 | 128 | 2,070 | 4 | 23 | 73 | 11,496 |
Tallahassee | 850 | U | 194 | 89 | 2,180 | 4 | U | 55 | 9,825 |
Lakeland | 1,097 | U | 176 | 95 | 1,853 | 6 | U | 141 | 6,724 |
Fort Pierce | 946 | U | 162 | 100 | 1,620 | 6 | U | 166 | 6,491 |
Naples | 560 | U | 156 | 57 | 2,737 | 4 | U | 12 | 6,750 |
Gainesville | 739 | U | 151 | 61 | 2,475 | 5 | U | 45 | 10,738 |
Fort Walton Beach | 687 | U | 134 | 72 | 1,861 | 5 | U | 0 | NA |
Panama City | 817 | U | 121 | 76 | 1,592 | 7 | U | 0 | NA |
Winter Haven | 928 | U | 103 | 48 | 2,146 | 9 | U | 0 | NA |
Stuart | 385 | U | 101 | 45 | 2,244 | 4 | U | 39 | 6,252 |
Ocala | 523 | U | 90 | 48 | 1,875 | 6 | U | 33 | 10,518 |
Punta Gorda | 539 | U | 86 | 48 | 1,792 | 6 | U | 18 | 9,283 |
Vero Beach | 477 | U | 81 | 51 | 1,588 | 6 | U | 4 | 8,248 |
Deltona | 693 | U | 69 | 60 | 1,150 | 10 | U | 22 | 17,029 |
Spring Hill | 151 | U | 67 | 39 | 1,718 | 2 | U | 0 | NA |
Titusville | 439 | U | 62 | 41 | 1,512 | 7 | U | 25 | 6,859 |
1A "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. 2Lane miles estimated by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
KEY: DVMT = daily vehicle-miles of travel; NA = not applicable; U = data are unavailable.
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.