Brown County Heartland Express

Demand Response at Brown County Heartland Express

Brown County Heartland Express carried 40,375 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $24.74 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response New Ulm, MN
FY2025 boardings
40.4K
+1.4% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$24.74
+3.4% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$22.59
+4.2% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
8.7%
-7.5% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$998.9K
Vehicles in service
7
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
3.3
12.3K hours operated

Ridership

This service reports annually.

Monthly boardings

NTD publishes monthly figures for full reporters only, so this service has annual data alone.

Annual boardings

Ten-year series

Cost

This service against every demand response 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
Directly operated 40,375 — 12,252 $998,896 $24.74 $22.59 8.7% 7

Full series

Every year Brown County Heartland Express reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 40,375 — 175,384 12,252 $998,896 $86,789 $24.74 $22.59 8.7%
2024 39,837 — 173,846 11,827 $953,525 $89,569 $23.94 $21.69 9.4%
2023 39,769 — 171,313 12,012 $865,986 $92,155 $21.78 $19.46 10.6%
2022 40,102 — 157,509 10,721 $849,148 $39,963 $21.17 $20.18 4.7%
2021 33,724 — 158,320 10,689 $813,741 $1,131 $24.13 $24.10 0.1%
2020 43,607 — 156,885 10,721 $720,934 $41,389 $16.53 $15.58 5.7%
2019 51,942 — 174,635 12,197 $762,578 $70,089 $14.68 $13.33 9.2%
2018 52,428 — 175,472 12,603 $732,118 $73,758 $13.96 $12.56 10.1%
2017 53,827 — 180,269 12,879 $710,755 $73,836 $13.20 $11.83 10.4%
2016 52,598 — 149,840 10,218 $629,214 $47,509 $11.96 $11.06 7.6%
2015 52,998 — 150,019 11,492 $652,403 $69,133 $12.31 $11.01 10.6%