Hendricks and Morgan County Connect

Demand Response at Hendricks and Morgan County Connect

Hendricks and Morgan County Connect carried 54,582 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $29.44 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Danville, IN
FY2025 boardings
54.6K
+4.5% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$29.44
+4.2% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$26.76
+9.2% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
9.1%
-31.3% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
446.5K
average trip 8.18 miles
Operating cost
$1.61M
Vehicles in service
38
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.79
30.5K 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 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 54,582 446,536 30,480 $1,606,679 $29.44 $26.76 9.1% 38

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 Hendricks and Morgan County Connect reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 54,582 446,536 497,822 30,480 $1,606,679 $146,065 $29.44 $26.76 9.1%
2024 52,227 435,896 449,253 26,737 $1,475,094 $195,063 $28.24 $24.51 13.2%
2023 46,443 350,706 424,077 26,183 $1,529,497 $148,145 $32.93 $29.74 9.7%
2022 38,797 276,836 336,402 21,892 $1,401,287 $162,955 $36.12 $31.92 11.6%
2021 32,647 237,821 294,392 19,175 $1,046,065 $138,240 $32.04 $27.81 13.2%
2020 31,984 226,658 303,722 21,855 $914,267 $41,477 $28.59 $27.29 4.5%
2019 59,450 382,526 512,613 38,343 $1,156,903 $47,870 $19.46 $18.65 4.1%
2018 59,559 392,694 536,144 35,481 $1,200,164 $50,498 $20.15 $19.30 4.2%
2017 72,599 — 654,787 38,453 $1,198,918 $72,257 $16.51 $15.52 6%
2016 116,904 — 640,573 45,532 $1,269,695 $104,820 $10.86 $9.96 8.3%
2015 103,312 — 620,948 59,821 $1,194,695 $81,618 $11.56 $10.77 6.8%