Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Mississippi: 2000
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Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Mississippi: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis, TN-AR-MS | 3,369 | 22,724 | 919 | 420 | 2,188 | 3.7 | 24.7 | 505 | 13,636 |
| Jackson | 1,651 | 8,933 | 310 | 225 | 1,378 | 5.3 | 28.8 | 268 | 12,718 |
| Biloxi-Gulfport | 1,200 | 4,751 | 195 | 182 | 1,071 | 6.2 | 24.4 | 71 | 11,172 |
| Hattiesburg | 441 | 1,821 | 111 | 70 | 1,586 | 4.0 | 16.4 | 22 | 6,867 |
| Pascagoula | 451 | 1,431 | 66 | 81 | 815 | 6.8 | 21.7 | 6 | 8,545 |
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.