Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Oregon: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Oregon: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA | 5,615 | 31,517 | 1,338 | 469 | 2,853 | 4.2 | 23.6 | 701 | 17,977 |
| Eugene-Springfield | 1,482 | 4,129 | 203 | 104 | 1,952 | 7.3 | 20.3 | 109 | 12,193 |
| Salem | 814 | 3,299 | 173 | 69 | 2,507 | 4.7 | 19.1 | 102 | 11,691 |
| Medford | 413 | 1,449 | 73 | 38 | 1,921 | 5.7 | 19.8 | 43 | 9,720 |
| Longview, WA-OR | 307 | 1,352 | 63 | 47 | 1,340 | 4.9 | 21.5 | 91 | 6,598 |
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.