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BTS Home > Publications > State Transportation Statistics > State Transportation Statistics 2006

Table 4-2: Licensed Drivers: 2005

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State	Number of licensed drivers	Licensed drivers per registered vehicle	Resident population	Driving age population (16 and over)	Drivers per 1,000 total resident population	Drivers per 1,000 driving age population¹
Alabama	3,637,414	0.81	4,557,808	3,595,385	798	1,012
Alaska	482,532	0.73	663,661	498,113	727	969
Arizona	3,943,180	1.00	5,939,292	4,525,085	664	871
Arkansas	2,024,466	1.06	2,779,154	2,181,791	728	928
California	22,895,965	0.72	36,132,147	27,491,426	634	833
Colorado	3,341,275	1.89	4,665,177	3,612,126	716	925
Connecticut	2,740,270	0.91	3,510,297	2,775,008	781	987
Delaware	533,943	0.74	843,524	670,284	633	797
District of Columbia	330,363	1.46	550,521	448,107	600	737
Florida	13,373,700	0.87	17,789,864	14,190,232	752	942
Georgia	5,939,513	0.75	9,072,576	6,967,386	655	852
Hawaii	856,163	0.92	1,275,194	1,008,488	671	849
Idaho	978,450	0.72	1,429,096	1,098,342	685	891
Illinois	7,870,872	0.84	12,763,371	9,883,696	617	796
Indiana	4,521,329	0.93	6,271,973	4,849,572	721	932
Iowa	2,033,157	0.61	2,966,334	2,378,052	685	855
Kansas	1,974,238	0.84	2,744,687	2,149,527	719	918
Kentucky	2,860,729	0.85	4,173,405	3,305,220	685	866
Louisiana	3,083,516	0.82	4,523,628	3,509,844	682	879
Maine	1,003,972	0.95	1,321,505	1,081,625	760	928
Maryland	3,709,594	0.87	5,600,388	4,360,371	662	851
Massachusetts	4,612,829	0.86	6,398,743	5,111,066	721	903
Michigan	7,105,272	0.88	10,120,860	7,894,477	702	900
Minnesota	3,083,757	0.67	5,132,799	4,052,366	601	761
Mississippi	1,965,464	1.01	2,921,088	2,258,274	673	870
Missouri	4,135,394	0.91	5,800,310	4,587,168	713	902
Montana	715,512	0.73	935,670	757,938	765	944
Nebraska	1,320,617	0.79	1,758,787	1,377,558	751	959
Nevada	1,596,353	1.21	2,414,807	1,858,037	661	859
New Hampshire	985,775	0.85	1,309,940	1,045,765	753	943
New Jersey	5,870,720	0.96	8,717,925	6,800,985	673	863
New Mexico	1,304,721	0.87	1,928,384	1,497,629	677	871
New York	11,071,911	0.95	19,254,630	15,235,439	575	727
North Carolina	6,227,817	1.03	8,683,242	6,776,507	717	919
North Dakota	466,701	0.69	636,677	518,009	733	901
Ohio	7,707,842	0.74	11,464,042	9,031,678	672	853
Oklahoma	2,234,114	0.61	3,547,884	2,793,338	630	800
Oregon	2,692,948	0.95	3,641,056	2,890,194	740	932
Pennsylvania	8,460,530	0.87	12,429,616	9,962,387	681	849
Rhode Island	746,465	0.93	1,076,189	859,993	694	868
South Carolina	2,987,593	0.91	4,255,083	3,347,854	702	892
South Dakota	566,255	0.68	775,933	610,985	730	927
Tennessee	4,351,868	0.89	5,962,959	4,732,978	730	919
Texas	14,659,390	0.86	22,859,968	17,210,146	641	852
Utah	1,599,514	0.73	2,469,585	1,803,246	648	887
Vermont	563,162	1.13	623,050	508,772	904	1,107
Virginia	5,112,523	0.79	7,567,465	5,950,539	676	859
Washington	4,681,927	0.85	6,287,759	4,979,820	745	940
West Virginia	1,327,569	1.02	1,816,856	1,480,308	731	897
Wisconsin	3,993,348	0.86	5,536,201	4,400,770	721	907
Wyoming	382,735	0.61	509,294	409,782	752	934
United States, total	200,665,267	0.85	296,410,404	231,323,688	677	867

¹Some states report more licensed drivers than residents of driving age. This may occur for several reasons: 1) the records of expired licenses, drivers who have moved out of state, and people who have died are only periodically purged from a state's drivers license database; 2) some drivers fraudulently obtain a license in more than one state; and 3) some drivers obtain a license in a state other than that in which they are a legal resident.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics 2005, Washington, DC: 2006, table DL-1C.