Metropolitan Planning Organizations
The planning areas of the country's metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs): the regional bodies that carry out the federally required transportation planning for every urbanized area of 50,000 people or more and decide how its federal transportation funds are programmed. Good for finding which MPO covers a place, listing the counties, cities or towns inside an MPO, and summing other data by MPO.
- Published by
- Federal Highway Administration, Office of Planning; distributed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Source
- MPO (FHWA metropolitan planning organizations)
- Original data
- services.arcgis.com
- Terms of use
- Public domain (work of the U.S. government); acknowledge FHWA and BTS
- On the map
- Areas
From the publisher
The Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) dataset was compiled on March 31, 2026 from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). This dataset contains the geographic boundaries of Metropolitan Planning Organizations. It provides users with transportation planning locations, sizes and names and is intended for metropolitan area multimodal transportation planning and programming.
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Fields
What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 5 fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
MPO_ID | FHWA's MPO id: lead state FIPS, year designated, sequence |
MPO_NAME | Official name of the MPO |
STATE | USPS code of the state FHWA files the MPO under |
(computed) | USPS codes of the states with at least 5 square miles of the MPO, the most first |
AREA | Area of the whole MPO, square miles |