Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Michigan: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Michigan: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit | 13,808 | 92,359 | 3,836 | 1,304 | 2,942 | 3.6 | 24.1 | 1,813 | 17,169 |
| Grand Rapids | 2,273 | 12,151 | 530 | 318 | 1,667 | 4.3 | 22.9 | 292 | 12,231 |
| Toledo, OH-MI | 2,121 | 11,830 | 500 | 255 | 1,961 | 4.2 | 23.7 | 319 | 12,615 |
| Flint | 1,700 | 9,699 | 339 | 237 | 1,430 | 5.0 | 28.6 | 322 | 10,570 |
| Lansing-East Lansing | 1,236 | 6,376 | 285 | 157 | 1,815 | 4.3 | 22.4 | 206 | 9,794 |
| Ann Arbor | 991 | 7,131 | 277 | 159 | 1,742 | 3.6 | 25.7 | 244 | 13,590 |
| South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI | 1,431 | 5,329 | 240 | 147 | 1,633 | 6.0 | 22.2 | 147 | 6,603 |
| Kalamazoo | 881 | 4,635 | 184 | 123 | 1,496 | 4.8 | 25.2 | 113 | 10,275 |
| Saginaw | 749 | 3,113 | 135 | 78 | 1,731 | 5.5 | 23.1 | 97 | 7,780 |
| Muskegon | 685 | 2,357 | 119 | 87 | 1,368 | 5.8 | 19.8 | 62 | 9,033 |
| Jackson | 544 | 2,204 | 90 | 78 | 1,154 | 6.0 | 24.5 | 87 | 8,307 |
| Holland | 401 | 1,619 | 87 | 58 | 1,500 | 4.6 | 18.6 | 53 | 4,072 |
| Battle Creek | 557 | 2,082 | 81 | 79 | 1,025 | 6.9 | 25.7 | 57 | 9,279 |
| Port Huron | 452 | 1,829 | 78 | 62 | 1,258 | 5.8 | 23.5 | 60 | 6,568 |
| Bay City | 415 | 1,585 | 74 | 49 | 1,510 | 5.6 | 21.4 | 47 | 6,735 |
| Benton Harbor | 412 | 1,891 | 60 | 49 | 1,224 | 6.9 | 31.5 | 84 | 8,950 |
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.