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    [OC] Welche US-Bundesstaaten sind am stärksten ausgebaut (Straßenmeilen pro Quadratmeile)

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    1. cmojsiejenko on

      Data sources:

      – FHWA Highway Statistics HM-20 (public road mileage by state)

      – U.S. Census Bureau 2020 Gazetteer files (land area)

      Method:

      Calculated road density as total public road miles per square mile of land for each state.

      Tools:

      Python (GeoPandas, Pandas, Matplotlib)

      Notes:

      – D.C. excluded for consistency

      – Includes all public roads, not just highways

    2. Iamnotanorange on

      Whoa, this is REALLY cool and explains why California feels so different from New Jersey

    3. Themanstall on

      This is a terrible graphic, starting with scale. Why is there so much white space?

    4. bicyclechief on

      This is awesome. It really helps when I tell people rural in the southeast/eastern Midwest (Ohio Indiana etc) feels sooo different than rural Great Plains/inter mountain west.

    7. Agent_Giraffe on

      Anyone else feel like this is kinda useless? Like smaller states will be way more “built up” than larger states that dwarf those smaller states (in cities, population, GDP) due to their smaller size?

      Maybe roads per capita would be better?

    8. syphax on

      Questions & comments;

      There are several columns in the mileage table; which did you use?

      Any idea how unpaved roads are counted? I ask because the count of road mileage in e.g. VT depends a lot on whether you include gravel roads, class IV roads, etc.

      You may want to show a table with top 5 and bottom 5 states, plus median, to provide some sense of range. Hard to infer values here, all you can really tell is which states are really dense and really not.

      I spend time in VT and MA; I’m happy to report that MA isn’t completely a paved hell-hole; it’s pretty easy to get away from roads, esp. outside 128

    10. logicalconflict on

      „Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.“

      ~The Intermountain West

    11. aphysicalpotato on

      From right to left, earlier colonized states to later colonized states

    12. CatTheKitten on

      The data is clear and hilarious. New Jersey and Rhode Island are more road per square mile. Delaware, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maryland are not even close to either of their densities, and Massachusetts + Connecticut are another tier too.

      The takeaway should be that new jersey is hell.

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