Kenosha Area Transit

Streetcar at Kenosha Area Transit

Kenosha Area Transit carried 22,689 streetcar boardings in FY2025 at $18.49 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Streetcar Kenosha, WI
FY2025 boardings
22.7K
+0.9% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$18.49
+12.1% nationwide $7.98
Subsidy per ride
$17.87
+12.8% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
3.4%
-15.5% nationwide 6.9%
Passenger miles
37K
average trip 1.63 miles
Operating cost
$419.5K
Vehicles in service
2
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
9.77
2.3K 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 streetcar 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 22,689 37,001 2,322 $419,515 $18.49 $17.87 3.4% 2

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 Kenosha Area Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 22,689 37,001 14,678 2,322 $419,515 $14,083 $18.49 $17.87 3.4%
2024 22,481 37,094 15,630 2,298 $370,958 $14,745 $16.50 $15.85 4%
2023 19,526 32,218 16,578 2,343 $380,588 $14,843 $19.49 $18.73 3.9%
2022 20,173 34,086 16,506 2,342 $350,241 $14,665 $17.36 $16.63 4.2%
2021 19,876 32,795 16,047 2,339 $335,030 $12,599 $16.86 $16.22 3.8%
2020 3,845 6,344 4,511 600 $314,736 $2,825 $81.86 $81.12 0.9%
2019 36,658 60,486 17,120 2,415 $319,407 $23,146 $8.71 $8.08 7.2%
2018 39,569 65,289 17,242 2,413 $350,267 $22,313 $8.85 $8.29 6.4%
2017 45,120 50,534 16,880 2,357 $382,017 $25,446 $8.47 $7.90 6.7%
2016 51,145 57,282 17,523 2,428 $303,878 $25,315 $5.94 $5.45 8.3%
2015 45,947 51,461 17,233 2,420 $310,043 $24,283 $6.75 $6.22 7.8%