Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in New Mexico: 2000
| 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 thousand persons | Total DVMT per capita | Total estimated freeway lane miles2 | Average daily traffic per freeway lane mile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso, TX-NM | 2,211 | 12,049 | 649 | 227 | 2,859 | 3.4 | 18.6 | 274 | 14,503 |
| Albuquerque | 1,949 | 12,145 | 427 | 175 | 2,440 | 4.6 | 28.4 | 236 | 14,227 |
| Las Cruces | 989 | 2,459 | 64 | 44 | 1,455 | 15.5 | 38.4 | 60 | 4,874 |
| Santa Fe | 603 | 1,898 | 56 | 32 | 1,750 | 10.8 | 33.9 | 33 | 6,189 |
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, 2000, Washington, DC: 2001, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohimstat.htm as of Dec. 6, 2001.