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Urban share of vehicle-miles travelled: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Urban share of vehicle-miles travelled (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Road travel, road miles and fuel use by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 68.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 100 %
RI 89.6 %
DE 72.6 %
CT 89.7 %
NJ 93.3 %
MD 80.2 %
MA 95.4 %
VT 27.5 %
NH 60.2 %

Lowest: 26.6 to 43.2 %
Group 2: 43.2 to 59.9 %
Group 3: 59.9 to 69.5 %
Group 4: 69.5 to 78.9 %
Highest: 78.9 to 100 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Travel and fuel are counted where they happen, so states with heavy through traffic score high per resident.


1	District of Columbia	100
2	Massachusetts	95.4
3	New Jersey	93.3
4	Connecticut	89.7
5	Rhode Island	89.6
6	Florida	83.6
7	Hawaii	82.2
8	California	81.2
9	Maryland	80.2
10	Nevada	79.5
11	New York	78.9
12	Illinois	76.1
13	Arizona	73.7
14	Texas	73.2
15	Delaware	72.6
16	Washington	72.2
17	Utah	71.8
18	Colorado	70.7
19	Ohio	70.4
20	Virginia	69.9
21	Georgia	69.5
22	Michigan	68.9
23	Pennsylvania	63.3
24	South Carolina	62.4
24	Tennessee	62.4
26	Louisiana	62.3
27	Indiana	61.5
28	North Carolina	61.1
29	New Hampshire	60.2
30	Minnesota	60
31	Alabama	59.9
32	Oregon	59.1
33	Alaska	57.2
34	Missouri	55.2
35	Arkansas	53.3
36	Kansas	53.2
37	Oklahoma	50.8
38	Wisconsin	48
39	Kentucky	47.6
40	Nebraska	46.8
41	Idaho	43.2
42	West Virginia	43.1
43	Iowa	41.3
43	Mississippi	41.3
45	New Mexico	40.8
46	Maine	33.9
47	North Dakota	32.3
48	South Dakota	30.4
49	Montana	29.3
50	Vermont	27.5
51	Wyoming	26.6

Source: Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics 2024, Tables VM-2 (vehicle-miles by functional system), HM-20 (public road length) and MF-21 (motor-fuel use)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2024 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2024.

Cite this ranking

U.S. states ranked by urban share of vehicle-miles travelled (%, derived) (2024). Data: Federal Highway Administration (with Census population), Highway Statistics 2024, Tables VM-2 (vehicle-miles by functional system), HM-20 (public road length) and MF-21 (motor-fuel use); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-urban-share-of-vehicle-miles-travelled/

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