Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in North Carolina: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in North Carolina: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | 2,653 | 19,097 | 646 | 299 | 2,161 | 4.1 | 29.6 | 483 | 15,831 |
| Raleigh | 2,078 | 14,657 | 477 | 276 | 1,728 | 4.4 | 30.7 | 362 | 12,604 |
| Fayetteville | 1,407 | 6,763 | 318 | 206 | 1,544 | 4.4 | 21.3 | 66 | 7,010 |
| Durham | 1,308 | 8,042 | 256 | 214 | 1,196 | 5.1 | 31.4 | 209 | 13,061 |
| Winston-Salem | 1,449 | 7,396 | 233 | 177 | 1,316 | 6.2 | 31.7 | 261 | 11,885 |
| Greensboro | 1,306 | 7,654 | 223 | 163 | 1,368 | 5.9 | 34.3 | 259 | 12,165 |
| Wilmington | 641 | 3,364 | 136 | 108 | 1,259 | 4.7 | 24.7 | 28 | 9,589 |
| Asheville | 1,002 | 5,977 | 126 | 180 | 700 | 8.0 | 47.4 | 224 | 11,455 |
| Gastonia | 870 | 4,682 | 126 | 120 | 1,050 | 6.9 | 37.2 | 103 | 15,224 |
| High Point | 1,031 | 4,577 | 125 | 167 | 749 | 8.2 | 36.6 | 181 | 6,499 |
| Kannapolis | 792 | 3,618 | 123 | 120 | 1,025 | 6.4 | 29.4 | 57 | 18,109 |
| Jacksonville | 274 | 1,532 | 107 | 88 | 1,216 | 2.6 | 14.3 | 0 | NA |
| Hickory | 727 | 3,789 | 90 | 103 | 874 | 8.1 | 42.1 | 90 | 11,144 |
| Burlington | 605 | 3,523 | 88 | 65 | 1,354 | 6.9 | 40.0 | 129 | 11,143 |
| Goldsboro | 364 | 1,791 | 70 | 76 | 921 | 5.2 | 25.6 | 23 | 9,691 |
| Greenville | 345 | 1,420 | 64 | 47 | 1,362 | 5.4 | 22.2 | 0 | NA |
| Rocky Mount | 362 | 1,322 | 59 | 34 | 1,735 | 6.1 | 22.4 | 37 | 6,174 |
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; NA = not applicable.
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.