The United States has a total coastline measuring approximately 12,383 miles, and a shoreline measuring 88,633 miles. Alaska is, by far, the state with the longest individual coastline or shoreline, and its coastline is even considered longer than all other states combined. The mainland's west coast has a combined length of 1,293 miles (shore: 7,863 miles), while the southern and eastern coast (from Texas to Maine) have a combined length of 3,700 miles (shore: 45,814 miles).

United States Public Road Length: Paved data was reported at 2,750,499.000 Mile in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,735,207.000 Mile for 2015. United States Public Road Length: Paved data is updated yearly, averaging 2,577,963.000 Mile from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2016, with 23 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,750,499.000 Mile in 2016 and a record low of 2,271,225.000 Mile in 1993. United States Public Road Length: Paved data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Highway Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.TA001: Public Road and Street Length.

United States Public Road Length: Paved: Urban data was reported at 340,656.000 Mile in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 339,085.000 Mile for 2015. United States Public Road Length: Paved: Urban data is updated yearly, averaging 272,263.000 Mile from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2016, with 23 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 340,656.000 Mile in 2016 and a record low of 234,716.000 Mile in 1992. United States Public Road Length: Paved: Urban data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Highway Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.TA001: Public Road and Street Length.

In 2023, the highway network in the United States had a total length of around 4.2 million statute miles. One statute mile is approximately equal to 5,280 feet. The United States has one of the most extensive road networks worldwide.

In 2022, the total length of U.S. urban and rural public roads and streets was between *** and *** million miles. Rural mileage made up over ** percent of the country's total mileage.

United States Railway Length: Commuter Rail data was reported at 7,745.000 Mile in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 7,697.000 Mile for 2015. United States Railway Length: Commuter Rail data is updated yearly, averaging 6,831.000 Mile from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2016, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 7,795.000 Mile in 2014 and a record low of 3,682.000 Mile in 1996. United States Railway Length: Commuter Rail data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.TA006: Railway Length.

United States Railway Length: Light Rail data was reported at 1,958.000 Mile in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,893.000 Mile for 2015. United States Railway Length: Light Rail data is updated yearly, averaging 996.000 Mile from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2016, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,958.000 Mile in 2016 and a record low of 482.600 Mile in 1990. United States Railway Length: Light Rail data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.TA006: Railway Length.

Publicly accessible open spaces provide valuable opportunities for people to exercise, play, socialize, and build community. People are more likely to use public open spaces that are close (ideally within walking distance) to their homes, and larger open spaces often provide more amenities. To assess the potential benefit of creating new open space in the southeast US, we identified areas without access to open space within a certain distance category (in this case, 10 miles). Then, for each 30-meter pixel in the study area, we then totaled the number of people within 10 miles who do not currently have access to open space within that distance. This represents the number of people who would benefit from new open space created on that pixel.

This statistic shows the average number of miles driven per day in the United States per driver between 2001 and 2017. On average, American drivers today are moving their vehicles considerably less than they were sixteen years ago, but they still totaled an average of 25.9 miles per day and per driver in 2017. The average driver also made more trips in 2001 than in 2017, when 2.7 daily vehicle trips per driver with an average length of 9.6 miles per trip were recorded. In 2001, the average driver made 3.4 trips with an average of 9.9 miles.

United States Public Road Length: Unpaved data was reported at 1,362,044.000 Mile in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,391,593.000 Mile for 2015. United States Public Road Length: Unpaved data is updated yearly, averaging 1,417,904.000 Mile from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2016, with 23 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,633,496.000 Mile in 1993 and a record low of 1,324,245.000 Mile in 2008. United States Public Road Length: Unpaved data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Highway Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.TA001: Public Road and Street Length.

Graph and download economic data for Vehicle Miles Traveled (TRFVOLUSM227SFWA) from Jan 2000 to Apr 2025 about miles, travel, vehicles, and USA.

United States Public Road Length: Total data was reported at 4,112,543.000 Mile in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 4,126,800.000 Mile for 2015. United States Public Road Length: Total data is updated yearly, averaging 3,858,596.500 Mile from Dec 1941 (Median) to 2016, with 74 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4,165,254.000 Mile in 2014 and a record low of 3,308,497.000 Mile in 1942. United States Public Road Length: Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Highway Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.TA001: Public Road and Street Length.

This statistic illustrates the miles traveled by passengers on public transportation in the United States from 1990 through 2016, with a breakdown by type of transit. In 2016, U.S. passengers covered a distance of around 20.5 billion miles on motor buses.

The United States shares a border of 5,525 miles with Canada to the north, and 1,933 miles with Mexico to the south. Alaska is the state with the longest international border, while Texas has the largest border of any state on the mainland. Michigan is the state with the third longest border, however the majority of this is on water, as the border is located on the Great Lakes.

This statistic shows the average person trip length in the U.S. in 2017. Commuting to or from work is on average **** miles. On average, this category accounted for over one out of every six person trips per household in the United States.

United States Public Road Length: Unpaved: Urban Local data was reported at 72,969.000 Mile in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 58,207.000 Mile for 2015. United States Public Road Length: Unpaved: Urban Local data is updated yearly, averaging 40,959.000 Mile from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2016, with 23 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 72,969.000 Mile in 2016 and a record low of 31,781.000 Mile in 1995. United States Public Road Length: Unpaved: Urban Local data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Highway Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.TA001: Public Road and Street Length.

In 2023, the commuter rail network constituted the largest length within the transit rail system mileage in the United States, amounted to 7,963 statute miles. During the same year, the mileage of the light rail network in the U.S. amounted to 2,161 statute miles.

Daily vehicle miles traveled (VMT) is a distance- and volume-based measure of driving on roadways for all motorized vehicle types—car, bus, motorcycle, and truck—on an average day. Per capita VMT is the same measure divided by the same area's population for the same year. Per vehicle VMT divides VMT by the number of household vehicles available by residents of that geography in the same year. These three value types can be selected in the dropdown in the first chart below. Use the legend items to explore various geographies. The second chart below shows per capita and total personal vehicles available to the region’s households from the American Community Survey.

Normalizing VMT by a county or region's population, or household vehicles, is helpful for context, but does not have complete parity with what is measured in VMT estimates. People and vehicles come into the region from other places, just as people and vehicles leave the region to visit other places. VMT per capita compares all miles traveled on the region's roads to the region's population (for all ages) from the U.S. Census Bureau's latest population estimates. Vehicle counts for VMT are classified by vehicle types, but not by vehicle ownership. In 2017, statewide estimates for VMT by motorcycles, passenger cars, and two-axle single-unit trucks with four wheels made up 88% of Pennsylvania's VMT, and 95% of New Jersey's. These vehicle types are highly likely to be personal vehicles, owned by households, but a small percent could be fleet vehicles of companies or governments. The remaining VMT is made up of vehicle types like school and commercial buses and trucks with more than two axles so they are highly likely to be commercial vehicles.

United States Railway Length: Amtrak data was reported at 21,358.000 Mile in 2016. This stayed constant from the previous number of 21,358.000 Mile for 2015. United States Railway Length: Amtrak data is updated yearly, averaging 22,256.000 Mile from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2016, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 25,000.000 Mile in 1997 and a record low of 21,178.000 Mile in 2010. United States Railway Length: Amtrak data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.TA006: Railway Length.

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