Table 5-4: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of 30 Largest Urbanized Areas: 2003
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-4: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of 30 Largest Urbanized Areas: 2003
| Federal-aid urbanized area1 | State(s) | 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-Newark | NY, NJ, CT | 42,421 | 290,054 | 17,717 | 4,778 | 3,708 | 2.4 | 16.4 | 7,171 | 15,695 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Pomona-Ontario | CA | 26,183 | 290,018 | 12,520 | 2,231 | 5,612 | 2.0 | 23.0 | 5,843 | 23,274 |
| Chicago | IL, IN | 23,849 | 165,787 | 7,702 | 2,730 | 2,821 | 3.1 | 21.5 | 2,667 | 19,502 |
| Philadelphia | PA, NJ, DE, MD | 17,738 | 102,950 | 5,287 | 2,276 | 2,323 | 3.4 | 19.5 | 2,319 | 14,608 |
| Miami | FL | 15,460 | 121,347 | 5,104 | 1,590 | 3,210 | 3.0 | 24.0 | 1,925 | 19,056 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington | TX | 17,759 | 109,173 | 4,312 | 1,727 | 2,497 | 4.0 | 25.0 | 3,105 | 16,705 |
| Washington | VA, MD, DC | 11,385 | 92,896 | 4,277 | 1,305 | 3,277 | 2.7 | 21.7 | 2,044 | 18,500 |
| San Francisco-Oakland | CA | 9,589 | 91,661 | 4,120 | 1,203 | 3,425 | 2.0 | 22.0 | 2,418 | 20,259 |
| Boston | MA, NH, RI | 16,071 | 89,268 | 3,988 | 2,104 | 1,895 | 4.0 | 22.4 | 2,375 | 15,707 |
| Detroit | MI | 14,570 | 100,791 | 3,939 | 1,439 | 2,737 | 4.0 | 26.0 | 1,914 | 17,486 |
| Seattle | WA | 10,384 | 66,885 | 2,946 | 1,185 | 2,486 | 4.0 | 23.0 | 1,745 | 17,577 |
| Atlanta | GA | 13,641 | 100,457 | 2,924 | 1,757 | 1,664 | 5.0 | 34.0 | 2,234 | 19,512 |
| Phoenix-Mesa | AZ | 11,767 | 68,335 | 2,907 | 1,115 | 2,607 | 4.0 | 24.0 | 1,326 | 17,803 |
| San Diego | CA | 6,577 | 67,998 | 2,872 | 733 | 3,918 | 2.0 | 24.0 | 1,857 | 20,027 |
| Houston | TX | 15,538 | 99,083 | 2,620 | 1,476 | 1,775 | 6.0 | 38.0 | 2,458 | 19,066 |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul | MN | 11,013 | 62,848 | 2,482 | 1,192 | 2,082 | 4.0 | 25.0 | 1,590 | 17,347 |
| San Juan | PR | 7,063 | 31,161 | 2,279 | 1,075 | 2,120 | 3.0 | 14.0 | 746 | 15,381 |
| Baltimore | MD | 7,060 | 51,761 | 2,076 | 683 | 3,040 | 3.0 | 25.0 | 1,529 | 17,034 |
| St. Louis | MO, IL | 9,728 | 62,450 | 2,067 | 1,124 | 1,839 | 4.7 | 30.2 | 1,786 | 14,636 |
| Tampa-St. Petersburg | FL | 9,851 | 58,242 | 2,057 | 1,294 | 1,590 | 4.8 | 28.3 | 673 | 14,640 |
| Denver-Aurora | CO | 7,821 | 47,558 | 2,050 | 814 | 2,518 | 3.8 | 23.2 | 1,142 | 15,725 |
| Pittsburgh | PA | 8,885 | 39,075 | 1,793 | 1,215 | 1,476 | 5.0 | 21.8 | 1,253 | 9,743 |
| Cleveland | OH | 7,072 | 37,927 | 1,792 | 897 | 1,998 | 3.9 | 21.2 | 1,376 | 12,638 |
| Portland | OR, WA | 5,918 | 32,475 | 1,685 | 469 | 3,593 | 3.5 | 19.3 | 714 | 18,125 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino | CA | 4,762 | 36,321 | 1,666 | 514 | 3,241 | 2.9 | 21.8 | 906 | 21,747 |
| San Jose | CA | 4,116 | 39,307 | 1,664 | 365 | 4,559 | 2.5 | 23.6 | 894 | 18,532 |
| Sacramento | CA | 4,488 | 32,436 | 1,656 | 383 | 4,324 | 2.7 | 19.6 | 705 | 19,435 |
| Cincinnati | OH, KY, IN | 6,464 | 39,228 | 1,606 | 887 | 1,811 | 4.0 | 24.4 | 1,167 | 15,111 |
| Virginia Beach | VA | 5,796 | 35,223 | 1,536 | 1,812 | 848 | 3.8 | 22.9 | 939 | 13,712 |
| Kansas City | MO, KS | 7,896 | 42,547 | 1,434 | 1,036 | 1,384 | 5.5 | 29.7 | 1,771 | 11,399 |
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 2003, Washington, DC: 2004, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/index.htm as of Dec. 1, 2004.