Pace Suburban Bus

Bus at Pace Suburban Bus

Pace Suburban Bus carried 16,966,341 bus boardings in FY2024 at $14.19 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Arlington Heights, IL
← All of Pace Suburban Bus
FY2024 boardings
17M
+13.8% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$14.19
-9.6% nationwide $8.24
Subsidy per ride
$13.06
-9.8% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
8%
+2.7% nationwide 11%
Passenger miles
100.8M
average trip 5.94 miles
Operating cost
$240.7M
Vehicles in service
518
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
10.29
1.65M hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through July 2026.

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 bus 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
Directly operated 16,402,061 98,126,424 1,583,831 $231,814,797 $14.13 $13.00 8% 491
Purchased transportation 564,280 2,639,386 64,756 $8,930,104 $15.83 $14.64 7.5% 27

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Pace Suburban Bus reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 16,966,341 100,765,810 23,441,869 1,648,587 $240,744,901 $19,243,371 $14.19 $13.06 8%
2023 14,908,216 100,920,590 22,438,943 1,595,835 $233,922,387 $18,201,238 $15.69 $14.47 7.8%
2022 13,528,762 91,244,432 21,994,363 1,550,682 $215,617,751 $17,055,465 $15.94 $14.68 7.9%
2021 12,376,806 82,170,021 21,716,557 1,558,474 $197,251,417 $14,964,059 $15.94 $14.73 7.6%
2020 13,594,308 86,738,166 22,179,488 1,587,771 $182,027,055 $14,565,731 $13.39 $12.32 8%
2019 26,191,884 165,101,025 24,385,456 1,719,742 $205,801,840 $31,856,640 $7.86 $6.64 15.5%
2018 27,673,427 171,090,145 24,215,872 1,729,684 $196,915,423 $33,636,617 $7.12 $5.90 17.1%
2017 28,804,740 184,751,614 24,193,306 1,720,130 $196,893,524 $32,022,481 $6.84 $5.72 16.3%
2016 28,399,520 184,815,825 22,310,280 1,582,310 $188,925,557 $32,816,984 $6.65 $5.50 17.4%
2015 30,118,241 202,674,274 21,662,389 1,533,016 $168,651,000 $33,427,691 $5.60 $4.49 19.8%