Community Transit
Demand Response at Community Transit
Community Transit carried 30,076 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $32.32 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.
Demand Response
Port Saint Lucie, FL
FY2024 boardings
30.1K
-2.5%
vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$32.32
-12.9%
nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
—
operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
—
nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$972.1K
Vehicles in service
10
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.3
13.1K hours operated
Ridership
Monthly data through June 2020.
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 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, FY2024
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 | 30,076 | — | 13,096 | $972,124 | $32.32 | — | — | 10 |
Safety and reliability
For this service alone.
Events by year
Complete calendar years only
Full series
Every year Community Transit reported this service.
| Year | Boardings | Passenger miles | Revenue miles | Revenue hours | Operating cost | Fares | Cost / ride | Subsidy / ride | Fare recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30,076 | — | 177,803 | 13,096 | $972,124 | — | $32.32 | — | — |
| 2023 | 30,844 | — | 225,401 | 13,597 | $1,144,273 | — | $37.10 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23,744 | — | 216,009 | 12,876 | $1,264,281 | — | $53.25 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19,026 | — | 187,820 | 12,639 | $1,436,533 | — | $75.50 | — | — |
| 2020 | 68,212 | 639,146 | 384,346 | 27,043 | $3,100,927 | $1,270 | $45.46 | $45.44 | 0% |
| 2019 | 90,596 | 871,534 | 473,184 | 31,444 | $3,208,964 | $1,930 | $35.42 | $35.40 | 0.1% |
| 2018 | 102,979 | 950,726 | 546,048 | 35,772 | $3,291,892 | $77,497 | $31.97 | $31.21 | 2.4% |
| 2017 | 99,662 | 929,553 | 533,652 | 34,760 | $3,006,603 | $40,833 | $30.17 | $29.76 | 1.4% |
| 2016 | 101,758 | 541,312 | 532,684 | 34,736 | $2,747,294 | $45,533 | $27.00 | $26.55 | 1.7% |
| 2015 | 100,199 | 510,596 | 493,909 | 33,000 | $2,711,452 | $53,732 | $27.06 | $26.52 | 2% |