List of United States local bus agencies by ridership

The following is a list of local bus agencies in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures are unlinked passenger trips for the stated time period and come from the American Public Transportation Association's Quarterly "Public Transportation Ridership Reports".[1]

APTA List

These figures are from the largest bus agencies ridership table in the American Public Transportation Association's Quarterly "Public Transportation Ridership Reports".[1] APTA categorizes large bus agencies as those which operate in urbanized areas of more than one million inhabitants and operate 300 or more peak hour buses.

Rank by 2019 Annual Ridership Agency Primary City 2019 Annual Ridership[2] Average Weekday Ridership (Q4 2019)[1] Notes
1 MTA New York City 732,636,800 2,259,100
2 LACMTA Los Angeles 278,109,900 865,600
3 CTA Chicago 237,276,500 760,200
4 Muni San Francisco 159,331,200 502,000 [lower-alpha 1]
5 New Jersey Transit Newark 150,997,300 Not Available
6 SEPTA Philadelphia 142,043,800 508,400 [lower-alpha 1]
7 King County Metro Seattle 121,300,300 399,600 [lower-alpha 1]
8 MBTA Boston 116,372,700 391,000 [lower-alpha 1]
9 WMATA Washington, D.C. 105,469,800 340,100
10 RTD Denver 69,870,300 265,200
11 MTA Maryland Baltimore 67,925,700 270,600
12 METRO Houston 67,353,100 224,000
13 RTC Transit Las Vegas 65,266,100 200,200
14 TriMet Portland 57,373,500 186,000
15 Port Authority Pittsburgh 54,832,800 Not Available
16 AC Transit Oakland 53,883,900 215,500
17 Metro Transit Minneapolis 51,860,100 171,600
18 MARTA Atlanta 50,018,300 Not Available
19 Miami-Dade Transit Miami 49,909,700 163,500
20 MTS San Diego 48,032,200 163,000
21 DART Dallas 38,598,500 124,200
22 OCTA Orange County 37,292,500 119,800
23 VIA San Antonio 35,350,100 80,900
24 Valley Metro Phoenix 33,222,500 108,300
25 VTA San Jose 27,367,400 92,000
26 MCTS Milwaukee 26,447,300 86,100
27 PACE Arlington Heights (suburban Chicago) 26,186,000 112,200
28 GCRTA Cleveland 24,757,400 82,100
29 LBT Long Beach 23,132,800 75,800
30 DDOT Detroit 22,680,000 Not Available
31 LYNX Orlando 22,536,600 68,700
32 Metro Transit St. Louis 22,492,700 70,200
33 Ride On Montgomery County, Maryland

(suburban D.C.)

 20,717,700 68,500
34 COTA Columbus, OH 19,145,100 61,500
35 SORTA Cincinnati 13,245,100 46,300
36 Big Blue Bus Santa Monica 12,823,300 43,500
37 Hampton Roads Transit Norfolk 10,660,600 33,200

Other Large Systems

The APTA largest bus agencies table excludes many large bus agencies in the United States. Below is a list of other bus agencies with more than 10 million unlinked passenger trips from the APTA Quarterly Report that are not found in the largest agencies table.

Agency Primary City 2019 Annual Ridership[2] Average Weekday Ridership (Q4 2019)[1]
TheBus Honolulu 60,369,200 184,800
Capital Metro Austin 29,365,400 94,700
CT Transit Hartford 26,135,200 Not Available
UTA Salt Lake City 20,303,000 72,600
NFTA Buffalo 19,994,400 69,900
Sound Transit Seattle 17,435,900 58,100
CDTA Albany 15,153,300 51,200
RGRTA Rochester 14,441,200 48,000
Sun Tran Tucson 13,796,800 46,000
Metro Transit Madison 12,856,500 49,300
CATS Charlotte 12,659,900 42,000
Sun Metro El Paso 12,304,500 33,600
KCATA Kansas City 12,164,800 38,700
HART Tampa 11,938,000 39,000
Foothill Transit West Covina (suburban Los Angeles) 11,751,800 38,700
PSTA St. Petersburg 11,654,500 36,200
Champaign-Urbana MTD Champaign/Urbana 11,231,600 44,600
Samtrans San Carlos (suburban San Francisco) 10,808,000 37,400
CATA Lansing 10,684,900 44,800
Fresno Area Express Fresno 10,648,700 35,100
Omnitrans San Bernardino 10,540,000 35,200
TARC Louisville 10,172,300 59,300
Community Transit Everett (suburban Seattle) 10,078,200 36,100
Sacramento RT Sacramento 10,029,000 37,800
STA Spokane 10,018,400 38,900
Interurban Transit Partnership Grand Rapids 10,012,000 38,100


See also

Notes
  1. Includes electric trolley bus ridership

References
  1. "Public Transportation Ridership Report: Fourth Quarter 2019" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. 27 February 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  2. "Public Transportation Ridership Report: Fourth Quarter 2019" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. 27 February 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
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