Manistee County Board of Commissioners

Demand Response at Manistee County Board of Commissioners

Manistee County Board of Commissioners carried 130,034 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $24.33 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Manistee, MI
FY2025 boardings
130K
-2.9% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$24.33
-4.5% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$23.30
-5% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
4.2%
+13.1% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$3.16M
Vehicles in service
23
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
3.3
39.3K 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 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 130,034 — 39,349 $3,163,342 $24.33 $23.30 4.2% 23

Full series

Every year Manistee County Board of Commissioners reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 130,034 — 596,373 39,349 $3,163,342 $133,922 $24.33 $23.30 4.2%
2024 133,933 — 636,409 40,478 $3,412,405 $127,696 $25.48 $24.53 3.7%
2023 140,372 — 629,733 39,219 $3,215,078 $134,044 $22.90 $21.95 4.2%
2022 118,304 — 612,496 37,436 $4,377,221 $121,814 $37.00 $35.97 2.8%
2021 93,823 — 482,535 34,491 $2,598,040 $95,682 $27.69 $26.67 3.7%
2020 107,506 — 470,635 29,749 $2,376,385 $96,461 $22.10 $21.21 4.1%
2019 155,849 — 594,021 38,709 $2,517,096 $142,936 $16.15 $15.23 5.7%
2018 155,367 — 566,212 35,520 $2,463,276 $148,398 $15.85 $14.90 6%
2017 150,697 — 537,083 33,165 $2,216,374 $140,245 $14.71 $13.78 6.3%
2016 141,772 — 509,195 30,424 $2,041,587 $131,754 $14.40 $13.47 6.5%
2015 137,043 — 492,184 29,613 $1,949,168 $536,645 $14.22 $10.31 27.5%