Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in North Dakota: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in North Dakota: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fargo-Moorhead, ND-MN | 567 | 2,179 | 140 | 70 | 2,000 | 4.0 | 15.6 | 63 | 7,546 |
| Bismarck-Mandan | 380 | 1,130 | 72 | 62 | 1,161 | 5.3 | 15.7 | 49 | 4,055 |
| Grand Forks, ND-MN | 266 | 749 | 57 | 27 | 2,111 | 4.7 | 13.1 | 12 | 3,385 |
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.