Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in New Hampshire: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in New Hampshire: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence-Haverhill | 1,484 | 8,670 | 301 | 205 | 1,468 | 5 | 29 | 306 | 14,017 |
| Lowell | 936 | 5,799 | 223 | 116 | 1,922 | 4 | 26 | 153 | 17,693 |
| Nashua | 497 | 2,223 | 137 | 73 | 1,877 | 4 | 16 | 70 | 10,174 |
| Manchester | 572 | 3,153 | 127 | 65 | 1,954 | 5 | 25 | 123 | 12,204 |
| Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester | 663 | 3,197 | 116 | 203 | 571 | 6 | 28 | 124 | 8,984 |
1A "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.