Table 5-5: Highway Congestion in the 50 Largest Urban Areas: 2010
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway Congestion in the 50 Largest Urban Areas: 2010
(Ranked by hours of delay per person)
| Urban area | Rank | Population (thousands) | Hours of delay (thousands) | Hours of delay per commuter | Cost of congestion ($ millions) | Cost of congestion per commuter ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington DC-VA-MD | 1 | 4,536 | 188,650 | 74 | 3,849 | 1,495 |
| Chicago IL-IN | 2 | 8,583 | 367,122 | 71 | 8,206 | 1,568 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana CA | 3 | 13,124 | 521,449 | 64 | 10,999 | 1,334 |
| Houston TX | 4 | 4,056 | 153,391 | 57 | 3,203 | 1,171 |
| New York-Newark NY-NJ-CT | 5 | 18,852 | 465,564 | 54 | 9,794 | 1,126 |
| Baltimore MD | 6 | 2,511 | 87,199 | 52 | 1,853 | 1,102 |
| San Francisco-Oakland CA | 7 | 4,058 | 120,149 | 50 | 2,479 | 1,019 |
| Denver-Aurora CO | 8 | 2,307 | 80,837 | 49 | 1,659 | 993 |
| Boston MA-NH-RI | 9 | 4,294 | 117,234 | 47 | 2,393 | 980 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington TX | 10 | 5,158 | 163,585 | 45 | 3,365 | 924 |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul MN | 10 | 2,730 | 78,483 | 45 | 1,595 | 916 |
| Seattle WA | 12 | 3,237 | 87,919 | 44 | 1,913 | 942 |
| Atlanta GA | 13 | 4,304 | 115,958 | 43 | 2,489 | 924 |
| Philadelphia PA-NJ-DE-MD | 14 | 5,365 | 134,899 | 42 | 2,842 | 864 |
| Austin TX | 15 | 1,305 | 31,038 | 38 | 617 | 743 |
| Miami FL | 15 | 5,391 | 139,764 | 38 | 2,906 | 785 |
| Orlando FL | 15 | 1,453 | 38,260 | 38 | 811 | 791 |
| San Diego CA | 15 | 3,087 | 72,995 | 38 | 1,541 | 794 |
| Portland OR-WA | 19 | 1,900 | 41,743 | 37 | 850 | 744 |
| San Jose CA | 19 | 1,814 | 42,846 | 37 | 842 | 721 |
| Baton Rouge LA | 21 | 607 | 14,577 | 36 | 329 | 832 |
| Bridgeport-Stamford CT-NY | 21 | 931 | 21,233 | 36 | 441 | 745 |
| Nashville-Davidson TN | 23 | 1,129 | 26,475 | 35 | 556 | 722 |
| New Orleans LA | 23 | 1,050 | 20,565 | 35 | 453 | 746 |
| Phoenix AZ | 23 | 3,632 | 81,829 | 35 | 1,905 | 821 |
| Virginia Beach VA | 26 | 1,551 | 36,538 | 34 | 693 | 654 |
| Detroit MI | 27 | 3,873 | 87,572 | 33 | 1,828 | 687 |
| Honolulu HI | 27 | 713 | 15,035 | 33 | 287 | 620 |
| San Juan PR | 27 | 2,310 | 50,229 | 33 | 1,012 | 665 |
| Tampa-St. Petersburg FL | 27 | 2,362 | 53,047 | 33 | 1,097 | 670 |
| Colorado Springs CO | 31 | 549 | 11,897 | 31 | 231 | 602 |
| Pittsburgh PA | 31 | 1,759 | 41,081 | 31 | 850 | 641 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino CA | 31 | 1,997 | 40,875 | 31 | 902 | 684 |
| San Antonio TX | 34 | 1,529 | 30,207 | 30 | 593 | 591 |
| St. Louis MO-IL | 34 | 2,341 | 47,042 | 30 | 1,034 | 642 |
| Las Vegas NV | 36 | 1,432 | 27,386 | 28 | 530 | 532 |
| New Haven CT | 36 | 617 | 11,643 | 28 | 235 | 559 |
| Birmingham AL | 38 | 859 | 15,832 | 27 | 326 | 556 |
| Milwaukee WI | 38 | 1,492 | 26,699 | 27 | 549 | 541 |
| Salt Lake City UT | 38 | 1,011 | 18,366 | 27 | 357 | 512 |
| Hartford CT | 41 | 904 | 15,072 | 26 | 295 | 501 |
| Albuquerque NM | 42 | 625 | 10,477 | 25 | 228 | 525 |
| Charleston-North Charleston SC | 42 | 524 | 9,160 | 25 | 195 | 529 |
| Charlotte NC-SC | 42 | 1,052 | 17,730 | 25 | 378 | 539 |
| Columbia SC | 42 | 486 | 8,515 | 25 | 181 | 533 |
| Jacksonville FL | 42 | 1,073 | 18,005 | 25 | 371 | 496 |
| Raleigh-Durham NC | 42 | 1,120 | 19,247 | 25 | 417 | 537 |
| Sacramento CA | 42 | 1,876 | 29,602 | 25 | 603 | 507 |
| Indianapolis IN | 49 | 1,223 | 20,800 | 24 | 443 | 506 |
| Little Rock AR | 49 | 459 | 7,345 | 24 | 149 | 490 |
NOTES: TTI's methodology changes periodically. When changes do occur, the methods are applied to all years, resulting in changes possibly over the entire period of data available. Consequently, the most recently published figures may not be comparable to those in past editions.
SOURCE: Texas A&M University, Texas Transportation Institute, Urban Mobility Report 2011, Congestion Data for Your City, available at http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/ as of April 26, 2012.