City of Commerce Transit

Bus at City of Commerce Transit

City of Commerce Transit carried 545,148 bus boardings in FY2025 at $12.90 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Commerce, CA
FY2025 boardings
545.1K
-1.2% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$12.90
-1.2% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
—
operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
—
nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
2.59M
average trip 4.75 miles
Operating cost
$7.03M
Vehicles in service
11
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
12.16
44.8K 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
Directly operated 545,148 2,590,634 44,833 $7,032,811 $12.90 — — 11

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 City of Commerce Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 545,148 2,590,634 441,592 44,833 $7,032,811 — $12.90 — —
2024 551,569 2,901,393 484,826 49,220 $7,200,262 — $13.05 — —
2023 443,696 2,159,103 466,316 47,841 $6,622,211 — $14.93 — —
2022 239,106 878,145 386,368 38,538 $5,886,979 — $24.62 — —
2021 108,555 416,124 242,545 25,365 $4,161,995 — $38.34 — —
2020 314,383 1,206,166 318,688 29,765 $4,049,080 — $12.88 — —
2019 445,353 2,018,221 376,920 33,907 $3,735,370 — $8.39 — —
2018 500,498 2,113,828 403,011 31,853 $4,062,643 — $8.12 — —
2017 529,835 2,135,306 403,659 30,466 $3,692,764 — $6.97 — —
2016 606,622 2,330,387 398,494 29,939 $3,036,885 — $5.01 — —
2015 612,131 2,344,173 338,884 26,298 $2,936,165 $416,290 $4.80 $4.12 14.2%