Otsego County Board of Commissioners

Demand Response at Otsego County Board of Commissioners

Otsego County Board of Commissioners carried 41,324 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $31.45 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Gaylord, MI
FY2025 boardings
41.3K
-2.9% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$31.45
+2.9% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$29.49
+3.3% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
6.2%
-6.2% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$1.3M
Vehicles in service
14
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.32
17.8K 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 41,324 — 17,790 $1,299,706 $31.45 $29.49 6.2% 14

Full series

Every year Otsego 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 41,324 — 235,993 17,790 $1,299,706 $80,967 $31.45 $29.49 6.2%
2024 42,554 — 260,304 18,493 $1,300,789 $86,365 $30.57 $28.54 6.6%
2023 40,752 — 233,828 19,372 $1,328,962 $78,051 $32.61 $30.70 5.9%
2022 39,229 — 225,531 19,689 $1,202,951 $73,388 $30.66 $28.79 6.1%
2021 31,980 — 194,736 18,120 $1,175,647 $77,392 $36.76 $34.34 6.6%
2020 36,270 — 176,120 16,491 $1,071,556 $54,846 $29.54 $28.03 5.1%
2019 60,503 — 254,161 22,460 $1,335,661 $78,445 $22.08 $20.78 5.9%
2018 64,825 — 270,349 21,658 $1,381,259 $83,428 $21.31 $20.02 6%
2017 76,501 — 351,436 27,803 $1,524,015 $89,158 $19.92 $18.76 5.9%
2016 89,198 — 433,063 30,186 $1,713,495 $104,084 $19.21 $18.04 6.1%
2015 90,580 — 446,303 30,599 $1,580,788 $303,951 $17.45 $14.10 19.2%