Skagit Transit

Demand Response at Skagit Transit

Skagit Transit carried 69,156 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $75.49 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Burlington, WA
FY2024 boardings
69.2K
+5.2% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$75.49
-21.8% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$73.80
-22.4% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
2.2%
+39.9% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
376.3K
average trip 5.44 miles
Operating cost
$5.22M
Vehicles in service
26
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.84
37.5K 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 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, 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 69,156 376,258 37,522 $5,220,697 $75.49 $73.80 2.2% 26

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 69,156 376,258 438,984 37,522 $5,220,697 $116,931 $75.49 $73.80 2.2%
2023 65,767 362,376 435,782 34,438 $6,352,903 $101,694 $96.60 $95.05 1.6%
2022 53,400 294,592 374,842 30,330 $5,128,359 $89,105 $96.04 $94.37 1.7%
2021 42,174 201,656 288,506 24,658 $4,299,444 $70,894 $101.95 $100.26 1.6%
2020 38,607 176,501 246,877 21,554 $4,124,693 $25,899 $106.84 $106.17 0.6%
2019 75,496 373,359 445,994 37,553 $4,399,591 $9,419 $58.28 $58.15 0.2%
2018 66,829 301,470 332,231 33,239 $4,844,347 $7,886 $72.49 $72.37 0.2%
2017 63,992 243,571 341,618 31,074 $4,489,672 $7,187 $70.16 $70.05 0.2%
2016 64,409 268,352 332,791 30,031 $3,982,519 $6,254 $61.83 $61.73 0.2%
2015 61,616 216,751 298,078 27,366 $3,146,184 $5,678 $51.06 $50.97 0.2%