Rural Office of Community Services

Demand Response at Rural Office of Community Services

Rural Office of Community Services carried 76,572 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $33.34 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Wagner, SD
FY2025 boardings
76.6K
-14.7% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$33.34
+31.5% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$26.34
+31.6% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
21%
-0.1% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$2.55M
Vehicles in service
35
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.94
39.5K 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 76,572 — 39,480 $2,553,182 $33.34 $26.34 21% 35

Full series

Every year Rural Office of Community Services reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 76,572 — 753,422 39,480 $2,553,182 $535,986 $33.34 $26.34 21%
2024 89,798 — 779,783 43,569 $2,276,121 $478,159 $25.35 $20.02 21%
2023 81,676 — 647,321 40,147 $1,875,746 $439,377 $22.97 $17.59 23.4%
2022 73,156 — 662,181 37,689 $1,544,250 $384,563 $21.11 $15.85 24.9%
2021 53,111 — 404,189 28,123 $1,564,909 $355,351 $29.46 $22.77 22.7%
2020 47,341 — 137,390 11,703 $1,331,804 $155,011 $28.13 $24.86 11.6%
2019 110,495 — 360,306 35,298 $1,045,798 $111,286 $9.46 $8.46 10.6%
2018 110,131 — 365,252 41,032 $930,446 $131,587 $8.45 $7.25 14.1%
2017 104,172 — 381,845 32,284 $1,019,730 $116,899 $9.79 $8.67 11.5%
2016 109,296 — 403,464 32,546 $1,080,105 $142,248 $9.88 $8.58 13.2%
2015 115,216 — 446,929 33,479 $1,149,239 $146,636 $9.97 $8.70 12.8%