Porter County Aging and Community Services, Inc.

Demand Response at Porter County Aging and Community Services, Inc.

Porter County Aging and Community Services, Inc. carried 18,249 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $55.16 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Valparaiso, IN
← All of Porter County Aging and Community Services, Inc.
FY2025 boardings
18.2K
+22% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$55.16
+4% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$54.89
+4.1% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
0.5%
-17.5% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$1.01M
Vehicles in service
7
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.58
11.5K 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 18,249 — 11,545 $1,006,548 $55.16 $54.89 0.5% 7

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Full series

Every year Porter County Aging and Community Services, Inc. reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 18,249 — 163,921 11,545 $1,006,548 $4,857 $55.16 $54.89 0.5%
2024 14,954 — 139,234 10,479 $792,793 $4,637 $53.02 $52.71 0.6%
2023 13,815 — 138,185 10,003 $740,129 $3,716 $53.57 $53.31 0.5%
2022 13,737 — 148,545 10,599 $761,766 $4,312 $55.45 $55.14 0.6%
2021 13,767 — 153,504 12,106 $644,584 $4,847 $46.82 $46.47 0.8%
2020 18,081 — 158,433 12,559 $711,526 $9,057 $39.35 $38.85 1.3%
2019 25,353 — 223,719 18,252 $759,711 $15,270 $29.97 $29.36 2%
2018 23,176 — 195,478 16,318 $749,293 $13,696 $32.33 $31.74 1.8%
2017 23,010 183,024 203,753 16,021 $681,964 $11,784 $29.64 $29.13 1.7%
2016 20,620 171,774 187,977 14,418 $670,583 $10,689 $32.52 $32.00 1.6%
2015 20,367 167,548 194,311 14,185 $638,711 $11,566 $31.36 $30.79 1.8%