Los Angeles Metrolink

Commuter Rail at Los Angeles Metrolink

Los Angeles Metrolink carried 4,321,271 commuter rail boardings in FY2024 at $71.56 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Commuter Rail Los Angeles, CA
← All of Los Angeles Metrolink
FY2024 boardings
4.32M
+16.7% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$71.56
-4.8% nationwide $24.41
Subsidy per ride
$63.27
-4% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
11.6%
-6.1% nationwide 26%
Passenger miles
170.3M
average trip 39.4 miles
Operating cost
$309.2M
Vehicles in service
195
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
13.76
314.1K hours operated

Ridership

This service reports annually.

Monthly boardings

NTD publishes monthly figures for full reporters only, so this service has annual data alone.

Annual boardings

Ten-year series

Cost

This service against every commuter rail 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
Purchased transportation 4,321,271 170,264,960 314,116 $309,214,108 $71.56 $63.27 11.6% 195

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Los Angeles Metrolink reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 4,321,271 170,264,960 11,346,587 314,116 $309,214,108 $35,825,086 $71.56 $63.27 11.6%
2023 3,703,404 154,381,637 11,082,561 306,389 $278,333,004 $34,327,384 $75.16 $65.89 12.3%
2022 3,754,556 144,137,325 10,684,890 290,856 $245,679,874 $28,194,015 $65.44 $57.93 11.5%
2021 2,102,196 82,407,370 10,870,106 292,991 $239,127,159 $16,256,412 $113.75 $106.02 6.8%
2020 9,357,013 321,490,316 13,049,429 359,092 $234,633,500 $63,103,997 $25.08 $18.33 26.9%
2019 12,824,059 416,394,626 13,582,288 374,740 $243,009,658 $82,152,185 $18.95 $12.54 33.8%
2018 14,190,870 438,553,704 13,513,335 372,464 $235,027,282 $82,698,139 $16.56 $10.73 35.2%
2017 14,396,198 419,663,422 13,133,012 359,520 $222,019,676 $83,397,682 $15.42 $9.63 37.6%
2016 13,758,419 425,150,283 13,089,698 357,816 $218,012,890 $84,505,943 $15.85 $9.70 38.8%
2015 13,975,359 406,645,646 13,085,725 340,167 $207,614,351 $83,110,552 $14.86 $8.91 40%