Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Kentucky: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Kentucky: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati, OH-KY | 4,887 | 32,605 | 1,176 | 630 | 1,867 | 4.2 | 27.7 | 972 | 16,194 |
| Louisville, KY-IN | 3,763 | 22,794 | 823 | 384 | 2,143 | 4.6 | 27.7 | 669 | 15,010 |
| Lexington-Fayette, KY | 1,322 | 7,308 | 245 | 286 | 857 | 5.4 | 29.8 | 243 | 10,958 |
| Evansville, IN-KY | 1,058 | 4,800 | 185 | 123 | 1,504 | 5.7 | 25.9 | 71 | 5,449 |
| Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH | 1,038 | 3,944 | 174 | 104 | 1,673 | 6.0 | 22.7 | 172 | 6,642 |
| Clarksville, TN-KY | 654 | 2,836 | 147 | 142 | 1,035 | 4.5 | 19.3 | 60 | 7,809 |
| Owensboro, KY | 378 | 1,292 | 64 | 24 | 2,667 | 5.9 | 20.2 | 57 | 3,853 |
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. 2Lane 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.