Skagit Transit

Bus at Skagit Transit

Skagit Transit carried 357,057 bus boardings in FY2024 at $32.55 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Burlington, WA
FY2024 boardings
357.1K
+5% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$32.55
+0.4% nationwide $8.24
Subsidy per ride
$31.91
+0.5% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
2%
-5.9% nationwide 11%
Passenger miles
1.23M
average trip 3.44 miles
Operating cost
$11.6M
Vehicles in service
16
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
5.12
69.7K 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 357,057 1,228,276 69,736 $11,622,139 $32.55 $31.91 2% 16

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 Skagit Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 357,057 1,228,276 1,018,565 69,736 $11,622,139 $229,374 $32.55 $31.91 2%
2023 340,072 1,169,070 887,155 64,263 $11,027,184 $231,231 $32.43 $31.75 2.1%
2022 276,522 1,133,740 822,724 59,094 $9,808,179 $216,295 $35.47 $34.69 2.2%
2021 225,406 924,833 754,158 53,940 $8,171,233 $184,569 $36.25 $35.43 2.3%
2020 236,772 971,628 660,781 43,603 $7,374,885 $160,739 $31.15 $30.47 2.2%
2019 560,363 2,308,069 889,278 61,821 $7,620,536 $368,183 $13.60 $12.94 4.8%
2018 591,047 2,432,602 873,956 61,192 $6,856,355 $351,673 $11.60 $11.01 5.1%
2017 554,403 2,280,467 885,452 58,923 $6,373,559 $343,521 $11.50 $10.88 5.4%
2016 578,663 2,899,887 858,232 56,984 $5,674,801 $296,409 $9.81 $9.29 5.2%
2015 677,374 3,572,619 886,957 57,564 $5,818,151 $337,201 $8.59 $8.09 5.8%