Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Illinois: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Illinois: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago, IL-Northwestern Indiana | 23,764 | 158,240 | 7,702 | 2,730 | 2,821 | 3.1 | 21 | 2,653 | 18,199 |
| St. Louis, MO-IL | 8,064 | 58,761 | 2,044 | 1,124 | 1,819 | 3.9 | 29 | 1,766 | 14,578 |
| Davenport-Rock Island-Moline, IA-IL | 1,429 | 5,480 | 267 | 164 | 1,628 | 5.4 | 21 | 183 | 6,748 |
| Peoria | 1,288 | 5,308 | 244 | 151 | 1,616 | 5.3 | 22 | 156 | 7,331 |
| Rockford | 1,222 | 4,951 | 208 | 133 | 1,564 | 5.9 | 24 | 109 | 8,549 |
| Springfield | 715 | 3,045 | 125 | 77 | 1,623 | 5.7 | 24 | 85 | 8,420 |
| Champaign-Urbana | 486 | 1,857 | 116 | 54 | 2,148 | 4.2 | 16 | 59 | 8,294 |
| Decatur | 580 | 1,716 | 97 | 67 | 1,448 | 6.0 | 18 | 44 | 2,577 |
| Bloomington-Normal | 508 | 2,090 | 94 | 48 | 1,958 | 5.4 | 22 | 85 | 6,474 |
| Alton | 579 | 1,824 | 92 | 85 | 1,082 | 6.3 | 20 | 13 | 3,298 |
| Beloit, WI-IL | 385 | 1,267 | 84 | 40 | 2,100 | 4.6 | 15 | 30 | 9,514 |
| Round Lake Beach-McHenry, IL-WI | U | U | U | U | U | U | U | U | U |
| Dubuque, IA-IL | 352 | 1,069 | 64 | 51 | 1,255 | 5.5 | 17 | 0 | NA |
| Kankakee | 314 | 1,165 | 60 | 43 | 1,395 | 5.2 | 19 | 50 | 6,390 |
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; 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.