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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: Urban Aff Rev Thousand Oaks Calif. 2003 Jan 1;38(3):325–355. doi: 10.1177/1078087402238805

TABLE 2.

Region of U.S. Metropolitan Areas and Degree of Sprawl, 2000

Region
West
 South
 Northeast
 Midwest
 Total
Sprawl Index Number of Metropolitan Areas % Number of Metropolitan Areas % Number of Metropolitan Areas % Number of Metropolitan Areas % Number of Metropolitan Areas %
0 to < 25    5   8    2   2    2   3    0   0    9   3
25 to < 50   28  44   14   11    8   13    7   9     57  17
50 to < 75   22  34   21  16   35  58   51  65    129  39
75 to 100    9  14   91  71   15  25   20  26    135  41
Mean   52.45   78.8   63.19   66.61     62.97
Total   64 100  128 100   60 100   78 100    330 100