US Urbanized Areas:
Traffic Increase Ranked by Change
in Population: 1990-7

Rank Urbanized Area Per Capita Vehicle Miles Traveled Population Vehicle Miles Traveled
1 Las Vegas NV 12.0% 62.0% 81.3%
2 Oklahoma City OK 2.2% 37.4% 40.5%
3 Phoenix AZ 1.7% 26.6% 28.9%
4 Orlando FL 20.0% 25.9% 51.1%
5 Portland-Vancouver OR-WA 25.2% 23.5% 54.6%
6 Atlanta GA 26.5% 22.9% 55.4%
7 Columbus OH 12.4% 19.4% 34.3%
8 Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood-Pompano Bch FL 14.1% 18.1% 34.8%
9 Philadelphia PA-NJ -2.7% 17.1% 13.9%
10 Kansas City MO-KS 22.5% 16.8% 43.1%
11 Dallas TX 11.2% 16.6% 29.7%
12 San Bernardino-Riverside CA 4.4% 16.2% 21.4%
13 San Jose CA -4.1% 14.9% 10.2%
14 Minneapolis-St. Paul MN 12.2% 13.9% 27.8%
15 Denver CO 19.3% 13.9% 35.9%
16 San Diego CA -4.4% 13.7% 8.7%
17 Seattle-Everett WA 7.2% 13.3% 21.4%
18 Sacramento CA 2.5% 12.8% 15.6%
19 Miami-Hialeah FL -0.1% 11.9% 11.8%
20 Washington DC-MD-VA 13.5% 11.8% 26.9%
21 Cincinnati OH-KY 23.3% 11.4% 37.3%
22 Norfolk VA 13.6% 10.3% 25.3%
23 Fort Worth TX 18.4% 8.3% 28.3%
24 Baltimore MD 10.0% 8.0% 18.9%
25 Los Angeles CA 0.2% 7.7% 7.9%
26 Houston TX 8.0% 7.6% 16.2%
27 Indianapolis IN 32.6% 6.9% 41.8%
28 Chicago IL-Northwestern IN 18.8% 6.3% 26.2%
29 San Francisco-Oakland CA 0.4% 6.1% 6.6%
30 San Antonio TX 15.0% 5.1% 20.9%
31 Cleveland OH 11.8% 4.5% 16.8%
32 New Orleans LA 9.8% 3.7% 13.8%
33 St. Louis MO-IL 23.6% 3.6% 28.1%
34 New York NY-Northeastern NJ 9.4% 2.3% 11.9%
35 Milwaukee WI 9.4% 2.0% 11.7%
36 Boston MA 11.3% 2.0% 13.5%
37 Pittsburgh PA 8.2% 1.4% 9.7%
38 Buffalo-Niagara Falls NY 17.1% 0.9% 18.2%
39 Detroit MI 8.8% 0.4% 9.2%
Calculated from Texas Transportation Institute (Federal Highway Administration) data.
Urbanized areas over 1,000,000 population in 1997

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