Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in New Jersey: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in New Jersey: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York-Northeastern, NJ | 37,623 | 263,905 | 17,089 | 3,962 | 4,313 | 2.2 | 15.4 | 6,601 | 15,346 |
| Philadelphia, PA-NJ | 13,417 | 77,005 | 4,068 | 1,347 | 3,020 | 3.3 | 18.9 | 1,743 | 14,049 |
| Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ | 1,901 | 12,647 | 503 | 254 | 1,980 | 3.8 | 25.1 | 321 | 13,869 |
| Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ | 1,872 | 9,443 | 447 | 179 | 2,497 | 4.2 | 21.1 | 283 | 11,962 |
| Trenton, NJ-PA | 1,600 | 8,373 | 340 | 192 | 1,771 | 4.7 | 24.6 | 296 | 10,099 |
| Atlantic City | 1,093 | 4,279 | 189 | 89 | 2,124 | 5.8 | 22.6 | 128 | 10,164 |
| Vineland-Millville | 537 | 1,930 | 96 | 128 | 750 | 5.6 | 20.1 | 87 | 5,038 |
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.