Anne Arundel County

Bus at Anne Arundel County

Anne Arundel County carried 308,930 bus boardings in FY2025 at $18.22 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Annapolis, MD
FY2025 boardings
308.9K
+299.9% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$18.22
-75.8% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
—
operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
—
nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
778.5K
average trip 2.52 miles
Operating cost
$5.63M
Vehicles in service
14
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
5.81
53.2K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 2026.

This year against the last five

Same months on one axis, so seasonality does not read as a trend

Annual boardings

Ten-year series

Cost

This service against every bus operator in the country.

Cost per ride

This agency against the national figure for the same mode

Fare recovery

Share of operating cost covered by fares

Directly operated and purchased service, FY2025

NTD reports these separately. An agency that contracts a service out reports the contract price, which bundles costs a directly operating agency reports line by line.

Service Boardings Passenger miles Revenue hours Operating cost Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery Vehicles
Purchased transportation 308,930 778,504 53,173 $5,629,677 $18.22 — — 14

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Anne Arundel County reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 308,930 778,504 684,776 53,173 $5,629,677 — $18.22 — —
2024 77,249 649,622 764,194 56,224 $5,806,227 — $75.16 — —
2023 79,658 653,028 797,288 55,491 $4,832,232 — $60.66 — —
2022 78,660 653,333 796,181 55,761 $4,704,397 — $59.81 — —
2021 78,560 651,255 760,366 55,275 $3,778,649 — $48.10 — —
2020 104,746 942,121 277,008 20,303 $1,166,631 $46,393 $11.14 $10.69 4%
2019 170,922 1,529,220 311,061 22,042 $2,444,307 $224,045 $14.30 $12.99 9.2%
2018 170,200 1,521,318 324,714 19,999 $3,291,845 $204,650 $19.34 $18.14 6.2%
2017 168,234 1,380,725 304,708 19,959 $1,905,945 $211,786 $11.33 $10.07 11.1%
2016 179,748 1,506,195 311,943 18,041 $1,980,723 $322,828 $11.02 $9.22 16.3%
2015 — — — — — — — — —