Opportunity Enterprises

Demand Response at Opportunity Enterprises

Opportunity Enterprises carried 49,513 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $20.18 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Valparaiso, IN
FY2025 boardings
49.5K
-4% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$20.18
-0.8% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$7.04
+7.5% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
65.1%
-4% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$999.3K
Vehicles in service
15
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
3.32
14.9K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through June 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 49,513 — 14,913 $999,342 $20.18 $7.04 65.1% 15

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Full series

Every year Opportunity Enterprises reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 49,513 — 256,713 14,913 $999,342 $650,623 $20.18 $7.04 65.1%
2024 51,580 — 280,979 15,718 $1,049,147 $711,199 $20.34 $6.55 67.8%
2023 39,416 — 177,710 8,492 $745,199 $408,554 $18.91 $8.54 54.8%
2022 41,065 — 180,499 10,141 $630,972 $352,643 $15.37 $6.78 55.9%
2021 41,663 — 236,276 10,739 $716,375 $284,549 $17.19 $10.36 39.7%
2020 58,708 — 301,801 24,066 $651,179 $18,879 $11.09 $10.77 2.9%
2019 83,813 — 365,068 27,627 $755,143 $22,090 $9.01 $8.75 2.9%
2018 89,295 — 395,543 30,539 $800,879 $42,601 $8.97 $8.49 5.3%
2017 86,342 1,364,264 375,315 28,894 $781,575 $21,655 $9.05 $8.80 2.8%
2016 87,827 1,378,044 361,865 25,616 $753,633 $20,863 $8.58 $8.34 2.8%
2015 83,817 1,313,998 357,691 23,925 $700,045 $10,644 $8.35 $8.23 1.5%