This blog post was updated on April 22, 2015. I find myself googling for this data once a month or so. I just can’t seem to remember where to find it on the Federal Highway Administration’s website. Below are states by total 2013 lane miles–which is the most recent dataset available today and is dated October 2014.
Road Miles by State: Sorted from Most to Least
| STATE | TOTAL LANE MILES |
| Texas | 675,580 |
| California | 394,608 |
| Illinois | 305,872 |
| Kansas | 287,100 |
| Minnesota | 285,084 |
| Missouri | 273,589 |
| Georgia | 271,920 |
| Florida | 271,024 |
| Ohio | 262,851 |
| Michigan | 256,806 |
| Pennsylvania | 250,199 |
| New York | 242,395 |
| Wisconsin | 238,025 |
| Iowa | 234,793 |
| Oklahoma | 234,633 |
| North Carolina | 225,168 |
| Alabama | 213,068 |
| Arkansas | 209,159 |
| Indiana | 203,569 |
| Tennessee | 202,185 |
| Nebraska | 190,716 |
| Colorado | 184,289 |
| North Dakota | 176,509 |
| Washington | 171,031 |
| South Dakota | 167,652 |
| Kentucky | 165,944 |
| Virginia | 161,914 |
| Mississippi | 156,999 |
| Montana | 152,940 |
| New Mexico | 147,600 |
| Oregon | 146,468 |
| Arizona | 144,393 |
| South Carolina | 140,106 |
| Louisiana | 130,038 |
| Idaho | 98,649 |
| Utah | 97,448 |
| New Jersey | 85,557 |
| Nevada | 85,323 |
| West Virginia | 79,891 |
| Massachusetts | 76,852 |
| Maryland | 71,126 |
| Wyoming | 60,454 |
| Maine | 46,879 |
| Connecticut | 45,744 |
| New Hampshire | 33,156 |
| Alaska | 31,618 |
| Vermont | 29,301 |
| Delaware | 13,849 |
| Rhode Island | 12,915 |
| Hawaii | 9,662 |
| District of Columbia | 3,418 |
| U.S. Total | 8,656,070 |
| Source: U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information. Highway Statistics Series. Functional System Lane-Length – 2013. Released October 21, 2014. You can download an Excel or PDF version of this data here. | |
Pie Graph Showing 2013 Lane Miles by State
And just for fun, here’s a pie graph of this table.
Helpful Links with Road Miles by State data
If you need historic data like lane miles for 1980 to 2007, check out Functional System Data; Estimated Lane – Length page. If you need Function System data for 2008 (i.e. interstates, freeways, arterial, collectors and local), check out FHWA’s Functional System Lane-Length – 2008 Lane-Miles page.
And below are links to FHWA’s Functional System Lane-Length by year. You can download PDF and Excel versions of the data on these pages.
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Can you please define ‘lane mile’ for me? Also, are these totals for all public roads (interstate, freeway, commercial, residential, etc)?
Thanks!
Chris
Hey Chris,
For those details, head over to the FHWA’s website. I’ve included links in the post.
Cheers!
Kristen
I have seen numbers as high as 2+ M miles of roads, all types, for California alone. These numbers are always low as they don’t usually count privately owned roads (ranch, private logging lands, etc.) and they don’t count primitive roads on USFS or BLM lands which can be in the thousands per county alone.
We should have a listing for alternative numbers …