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Sources of Sprawl in Florida's New Urbanized Areas
Results from the Holdren method (and in parentheses the simple ratio method)*

Urbanized Area

% of Total Sprawl related to
GROWTH IN PER CAPITA LAND CONSUMPTION was:

% of Total Sprawl
related to POPULATIONGROWTH was:

Daytona Beach

(0%) 0%

100% (100%)

Fort Myers-Cape Coral

(0%) 0%

100% (100%)

Fort Pierce

(1%) 2%

98% (99%)

Fort Walton Beach

(0%) 0%

100% (100%)

Lakeland

(0%) 0%

100% (100%)

Melbourne-Palm Bay

(0%) 0%

100% (100%)

Naples

(0%) 0%

100% (100%)

Ocala

(0%) 0%

100% (100%)

Panama City

(1%) 1%

99% (99%)

Sarasota-Bradenton

(0%) 0%

100% (100%)

Winter Haven

(0%) 0%

100% (100%)

Mean of percentages

(0.2%) 0.3%

99.7% (99.8%)

Weighted average**

(0%) 0%

100% (100%)

*Holdren method explained in Appendix D. Simple ratio method described in Section 5.1.

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