Greenville Greenlink

Bus at Greenville Greenlink

Greenville Greenlink carried 732,192 bus boardings in FY2025 at $13.04 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Greenville, SC
FY2025 boardings
732.2K
-4% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$13.04
+18% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$11.99
+18.9% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
8.1%
-8% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
4M
average trip 5.46 miles
Operating cost
$9.55M
Vehicles in service
16
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
10.68
68.6K 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 732,192 3,997,768 68,588 $9,547,992 $13.04 $11.99 8.1% 16

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 Greenville Greenlink reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 732,192 3,997,768 962,322 68,588 $9,547,992 $769,235 $13.04 $11.99 8.1%
2024 762,694 4,171,936 927,902 64,214 $8,429,488 $738,500 $11.05 $10.08 8.8%
2023 748,769 3,945,170 937,352 63,599 $8,187,070 $698,037 $10.93 $10.00 8.5%
2022 651,440 3,439,603 984,775 67,971 $6,927,981 $653,554 $10.63 $9.63 9.4%
2021 558,133 2,946,942 925,893 64,989 $6,520,536 $603,028 $11.68 $10.60 9.2%
2020 640,185 3,381,221 836,720 55,437 $5,574,526 $491,811 $8.71 $7.94 8.8%
2019 799,346 4,221,252 845,586 56,722 $5,735,206 $705,882 $7.17 $6.29 12.3%
2018 845,407 4,286,357 846,184 57,221 $5,171,530 $769,805 $6.12 $5.21 14.9%
2017 905,580 4,987,054 855,527 56,014 $4,775,771 $813,308 $5.27 $4.38 17%
2016 1,053,595 5,373,335 1,085,142 64,398 $4,779,057 $893,056 $4.54 $3.69 18.7%
2015 1,076,667 5,491,002 1,133,604 65,443 $4,502,817 $965,548 $4.18 $3.29 21.4%