Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Indiana: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Indiana: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago-Northwestern IN, IL-IN | 23,764 | 158,240 | 7,702 | 2,730 | 2,821 | 3.1 | 20.5 | 2,653 | 18,199 |
| Indianapolis | 4,228 | 29,398 | 915 | 422 | 2,168 | 4.6 | 32.1 | 725 | 15,536 |
| Louisville, KY-IN | 3,763 | 22,794 | 823 | 384 | 2,143 | 4.6 | 27.7 | 669 | 15,010 |
| Fort Wayne | 1,157 | 5,870 | 248 | 93 | 2,667 | 4.7 | 23.7 | 79 | 11,692 |
| South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI | 1,431 | 5,329 | 240 | 147 | 1,633 | 6.0 | 22.2 | 147 | 6,603 |
| Evansville, IN-KY | 1,058 | 4,800 | 185 | 123 | 1,504 | 5.7 | 25.9 | 71 | 5,449 |
| Lafayette-West Lafayette | 379 | 1,936 | 100 | 44 | 2,273 | 3.8 | 19.4 | 12 | 8,319 |
| Elkhart-Goshen | 751 | 2,993 | 99 | 94 | 1,053 | 7.6 | 30.2 | 68 | 5,883 |
| Muncie | 553 | 1,716 | 88 | 72 | 1,222 | 6.3 | 19.5 | 48 | 3,308 |
| Terre Haute | 625 | 2,579 | 77 | 61 | 1,262 | 8.1 | 33.5 | 47 | 8,261 |
| Anderson | 472 | 1,894 | 74 | 41 | 1,805 | 6.4 | 25.6 | 27 | 10,867 |
| Bloomington | 298 | 1,320 | 71 | 28 | 2,536 | 4.2 | 18.6 | 29 | 6,692 |
| Kokomo | 323 | 1,627 | 57 | 40 | 1,425 | 5.7 | 28.5 | 0 | NA |
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.
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.