South East Area Transit System

Demand Response at South East Area Transit System

South East Area Transit System carried 43,312 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $42.22 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Lumberton, NC
FY2025 boardings
43.3K
-1.5% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$42.22
+4.3% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$41.79
+4.2% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
1%
+11.2% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$1.83M
Vehicles in service
12
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.1
20.6K 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 43,312 — 20,645 $1,828,836 $42.22 $41.79 1% 12

Full series

Every year South East Area Transit System reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 43,312 — 399,734 20,645 $1,828,836 $18,877 $42.22 $41.79 1%
2024 43,979 — 409,390 20,496 $1,780,444 $16,528 $40.48 $40.11 0.9%
2023 40,842 — 350,336 17,176 $1,480,202 $8,990 $36.24 $36.02 0.6%
2022 39,436 — 351,596 15,898 $1,275,941 $11,432 $32.35 $32.06 0.9%
2021 36,832 — 354,158 15,837 $1,216,905 $12,616 $33.04 $32.70 1%
2020 51,504 — 341,882 16,358 $1,171,977 $15,545 $22.76 $22.45 1.3%
2019 58,839 — 357,124 16,932 $1,134,275 $14,707 $19.28 $19.03 1.3%
2018 59,169 — 360,692 16,930 $1,028,403 $17,430 $17.38 $17.09 1.7%
2017 69,449 — 368,605 17,216 $888,058 $19,818 $12.79 $12.50 2.2%
2016 60,246 — 360,927 16,638 $899,650 $25,148 $14.93 $14.52 2.8%
2015 54,445 — 339,428 16,081 $839,501 $26,903 $15.42 $14.93 3.2%