Lake County Community Services, Inc.

Demand Response at Lake County Community Services, Inc.

Lake County Community Services, Inc. carried 31,347 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $29.13 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Crown Point, IN
FY2025 boardings
31.3K
-0.8% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$29.13
-23.7% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$26.05
-26.3% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
10.6%
+44.6% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$913.2K
Vehicles in service
14
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.47
21.4K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through December 2017.

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 31,347 — 21,354 $913,223 $29.13 $26.05 10.6% 14

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Full series

Every year Lake County Community Services, Inc. reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 31,347 — 278,825 21,354 $913,223 $96,744 $29.13 $26.05 10.6%
2024 31,611 — 264,168 21,985 $1,206,270 $88,391 $38.16 $35.36 7.3%
2023 38,000 — 297,353 26,528 $1,157,673 $103,926 $30.47 $27.73 9%
2022 35,700 — 262,764 22,913 $1,071,327 $92,098 $30.01 $27.43 8.6%
2021 32,744 — 275,267 22,017 $902,400 $90,927 $27.56 $24.78 10.1%
2020 22,348 — 185,262 16,551 $835,284 $56,883 $37.38 $34.83 6.8%
2019 43,445 — 276,170 29,381 $890,310 $101,308 $20.49 $18.16 11.4%
2018 44,171 — 291,586 26,883 $1,032,455 $100,943 $23.37 $21.09 9.8%
2017 43,877 713,266 276,518 26,615 $826,992 $97,994 $18.85 $16.61 11.8%
2016 41,214 889,704 278,696 25,723 $754,542 $90,911 $18.31 $16.10 12%
2015 45,069 908,995 289,784 27,623 $796,784 $89,005 $17.68 $15.70 11.2%