Salem-Keizer Transit or Cherriots

Vanpool at Salem-Keizer Transit or Cherriots

Salem-Keizer Transit or Cherriots carried 92,837 vanpool boardings in FY2025 at $3.83 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Vanpool Salem, OR
FY2025 boardings
92.8K
+10.5% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$3.83
-11.4% nationwide $8.07
Subsidy per ride
$-0.99
+23.9% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
126%
-3.3% nationwide 73.2%
Passenger miles
2.15M
average trip 23.14 miles
Operating cost
$355.9K
Vehicles in service
39
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
7.26
12.8K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 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 vanpool 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
Purchased transportation 92,837 2,148,422 12,788 $355,943 $3.83 $-0.99 126% 39

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 Salem-Keizer Transit or Cherriots reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 92,837 2,148,422 500,308 12,788 $355,943 $448,312 $3.83 $-0.99 126%
2024 84,003 2,133,221 492,347 12,055 $363,341 $473,178 $4.33 $-1.31 130.2%
2023 94,821 2,441,828 538,867 12,887 $446,738 $561,683 $4.71 $-1.21 125.7%
2022 44,088 1,138,557 299,722 6,838 $238,952 $257,946 $5.42 $-0.43 107.9%
2021 22,514 698,116 241,349 5,500 $153,883 $150,891 $6.83 $0.13 98.1%
2020 59,152 2,197,116 474,257 12,295 $277,822 $290,192 $4.70 $-0.21 104.5%
2019 76,167 2,955,836 554,187 14,376 $304,079 $310,822 $3.99 $-0.09 102.2%
2018 70,250 2,848,891 528,480 13,803 $290,018 $303,605 $4.13 $-0.19 104.7%
2017 70,303 2,872,348 519,114 13,239 $327,047 $418,369 $4.65 $-1.30 127.9%
2016 78,774 3,199,040 566,917 13,201 $245,285 $488,651 $3.11 $-3.09 199.2%
2015 87,219 3,400,657 597,878 13,441 $391,998 $481,530 $4.49 $-1.03 122.8%