Skagit Transit

Vanpool at Skagit Transit

Skagit Transit carried 54,773 vanpool boardings in FY2025 at $14.48 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Vanpool Burlington, WA
FY2025 boardings
54.8K
+3.6% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$14.48
+3.4% nationwide $8.07
Subsidy per ride
$8.95
+9.6% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
38.2%
-8.4% nationwide 73.2%
Passenger miles
2.49M
average trip 45.51 miles
Operating cost
$793.4K
Vehicles in service
29
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
3.4
16.1K 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
Directly operated 54,773 2,492,939 16,098 $793,359 $14.48 $8.95 38.2% 29

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
2025 54,773 2,492,939 585,041 16,098 $793,359 $303,333 $14.48 $8.95 38.2%
2024 52,867 2,447,131 576,823 16,015 $740,918 $309,251 $14.01 $8.17 41.7%
2023 55,990 2,631,530 635,415 17,700 $895,796 $305,623 $16.00 $10.54 34.1%
2022 53,297 2,497,688 610,414 17,046 $620,114 $298,245 $11.64 $6.04 48.1%
2021 52,933 2,377,931 600,230 16,480 $608,790 $291,568 $11.50 $5.99 47.9%
2020 62,739 2,817,620 689,617 18,968 $684,241 $328,470 $10.91 $5.67 48%
2019 114,180 5,197,055 1,085,851 29,504 $744,583 $475,310 $6.52 $2.36 63.8%
2018 110,388 5,037,035 1,074,576 29,401 $660,240 $462,906 $5.98 $1.79 70.1%
2017 107,928 4,905,811 996,484 27,220 $608,602 $448,444 $5.64 $1.48 73.7%
2016 118,028 5,207,925 1,037,565 28,437 $563,168 $448,544 $4.77 $0.97 79.6%
2015 129,729 5,751,202 1,106,828 29,973 $539,264 $479,466 $4.16 $0.46 88.9%