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

• List of bus transit systems in the United States
• List of rapid transit systems
• List of light-rail transit systems
• List of United States light rail systems by ridership
• List of United States rapid transit systems by ridership
• List of suburban and commuter rail systems
• List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership

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.