Table 5-5: Highway Congestion in the 50 Largest Urban Areas: 2014
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
| 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 | 4,920 | 204,375 | 82 | 4,560 | 1,834 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim CA | 2 | 12,635 | 622,509 | 80 | 13,318 | 1,711 |
| San Francisco-Oakland CA | 3 | 3,480 | 146,013 | 78 | 3,143 | 1,675 |
| New York-Newark NY-NJ-CT | 4 | 19,040 | 628,241 | 74 | 14,712 | 1,739 |
| San Jose CA | 5 | 1,950 | 104,559 | 67 | 2,230 | 1,422 |
| Boston MA-NH-RI | 6 | 4,440 | 153,994 | 64 | 3,363 | 1,388 |
| Seattle WA | 7 | 3,325 | 139,842 | 63 | 3,294 | 1,491 |
| Chicago IL-IN | 8 | 8,700 | 302,609 | 61 | 7,222 | 1,445 |
| Houston TX | 8 | 5,000 | 203,173 | 61 | 4,924 | 1,490 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino CA | 10 | 2,020 | 99,058 | 59 | 2,201 | 1,316 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington TX | 11 | 5,485 | 186,535 | 53 | 4,202 | 1,185 |
| Miami FL | 12 | 5,860 | 195,946 | 52 | 4,444 | 1,169 |
| Detroit MI | 12 | 3,825 | 155,358 | 52 | 3,514 | 1,183 |
| Atlanta GA | 12 | 4,500 | 148,666 | 52 | 3,214 | 1,130 |
| Portland OR-WA | 12 | 1,990 | 72,341 | 52 | 1,763 | 1,273 |
| Austin TX | 12 | 1,500 | 51,116 | 52 | 1,140 | 1,159 |
| Phoenix-Mesa AZ | 17 | 3,925 | 155,730 | 51 | 3,641 | 1,201 |
| Denver-Aurora CO | 19 | 2,615 | 91,479 | 49 | 2,061 | 1,101 |
| Oklahoma City OK | 19 | 1,000 | 45,652 | 49 | 1,030 | 1,110 |
| Bridgeport-Stamford CT-NY | 19 | 955 | 37,119 | 49 | 898 | 1,174 |
| Philadelphia PA-NJ-DE-MD | 22 | 5,560 | 157,183 | 48 | 3,669 | 1,112 |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul MN-WI | 23 | 2,815 | 99,710 | 47 | 2,196 | 1,035 |
| Baltimore MD | 23 | 2,600 | 87,620 | 47 | 2,075 | 1,115 |
| Las Vegas-Henderson NV | 27 | 1,975 | 63,693 | 46 | 1,375 | 984 |
| Orlando FL | 27 | 1,615 | 52,723 | 46 | 1,207 | 1,044 |
| Virginia Beach VA | 29 | 1,460 | 48,274 | 45 | 1,020 | 953 |
| New Orleans LA | 29 | 975 | 39,159 | 45 | 1,014 | 1,161 |
| Nashville-Davidson TN | 29 | 1,200 | 38,977 | 45 | 1,013 | 1,168 |
| San Antonio TX | 33 | 1,935 | 64,328 | 44 | 1,462 | 1,002 |
| St. Louis MO-IL | 35 | 2,200 | 69,350 | 43 | 1,637 | 1,020 |
| San Juan PR | 35 | 2,055 | 60,301 | 43 | 1,605 | 1,150 |
| Sacramento CA | 35 | 1,810 | 60,220 | 43 | 1,334 | 958 |
| Indianapolis IN | 35 | 1,555 | 46,435 | 43 | 1,142 | 1,060 |
| Memphis TN-MS-AR | 35 | 1,085 | 37,824 | 43 | 939 | 1,080 |
| Providence RI-MA | 35 | 1,180 | 37,809 | 43 | 846 | 951 |
| Louisville-Jefferson County KY-IN | 35 | 1,110 | 35,622 | 43 | 860 | 1,048 |
| Charlotte NC-SC | 35 | 1,200 | 34,153 | 43 | 770 | 963 |
| San Diego CA | 43 | 3,090 | 79,412 | 42 | 1,658 | 887 |
| Tampa-St. Petersburg FL | 45 | 2,540 | 71,628 | 41 | 1,589 | 907 |
| Cincinnati OH-KY-IN | 45 | 1,640 | 48,485 | 41 | 1,159 | 989 |
| Columbus OH | 45 | 1,455 | 40,025 | 41 | 921 | 933 |
| Buffalo NY | 49 | 945 | 26,851 | 40 | 620 | 918 |
| Kansas City MO-KS | 51 | 1,600 | 45,570 | 39 | 1,085 | 933 |
| Pittsburgh PA | 51 | 1,765 | 44,758 | 39 | 1,030 | 889 |
| Cleveland OH | 55 | 1,765 | 45,051 | 38 | 1,046 | 887 |
| Milwaukee WI | 55 | 1,410 | 37,659 | 38 | 984 | 987 |
| Jacksonville FL | 55 | 1,085 | 29,680 | 38 | 659 | 842 |
| Salt Lake City-West Valley City UT | 66 | 1,100 | 26,925 | 37 | 779 | 1,059 |
| Richmond VA | 77 | 1,000 | 26,104 | 34 | 558 | 729 |
| Raleigh NC | 77 | 965 | 23,128 | 34 | 504 | 734 |
NOTES: Ranked by annual hours of delay per commuter. 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 2015, available at mobility.tamu.edu/ums as of August 2015.