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Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Texas: 2000

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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 person	Total DVMT per capita	Total estimated freeway lane miles²	Average daily traffic per freeway lane mile
Dallas-Fort Worth	17,830	116,548	3,746	1,712	2,188	5	31	3,149	15,625
Houston	15,251	91,883	2,487	1,537	1,618	6	37	2,379	16,473
San Antonio	5,002	33,445	1,143	485	2,357	4	29	1,055	14,952
El Paso	2,211	12,049	649	227	2,859	3	19	274	14,503
Austin	3,258	19,950	641	314	2,041	5	31	570	15,739
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission	1,620	7,478	330	156	2,115	5	23	136	14,692
Corpus Christi	1,638	7,464	297	164	1,811	6	25	292	9,645
Lubbock	1,380	5,007	190	143	1,329	7	26	183	5,066
Laredo	584	2,627	183	46	3,978	3	14	103	4,022
Amarillo	1,250	4,742	172	144	1,194	7	28	166	8,261
Waco	1,174	4,740	155	154	1,006	8	31	169	9,525
Lewisville	496	3,721	154	84	1,833	3	24	73	22,510
Brownsville	491	1,892	148	43	3,442	3	13	30	9,176
Texas City	894	3,554	140	174	805	6	25	197	7,874
Killeen	539	2,440	132	70	1,886	4	19	78	9,131
Odessa	1,045	2,372	89	130	685	12	27	116	3,803
Harlingen	482	1,876	88	50	1,760	6	21	67	9,650
San Angelo	604	1,629	88	56	1,571	7	19	94	3,798
Tyler	710	2,673	84	60	1,400	9	32	0	0
Longview	642	2,051	82	64	1,281	8	25	5	7,071
Denton	416	2,371	79	53	1,491	5	30	82	11,642
Temple	735	2,279	67	32	2,094	11	34	70	11,583
Texarkana	746	2,050	64	59	1,085	12	32	99	6,654
Victoria	353	1,207	62	30	2,067	6	20	0	0
Galveston	547	1,379	60	35	1,714	9	23	26	9,737
Sherman-Denison	631	2,217	59	130	454	11	38	132	8,026

¹A "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. ²Lane 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.