The Hop

Bus at The Hop

The Hop carried 175,378 bus boardings in FY2024 at $13.66 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Belton, TX
FY2024 boardings
175.4K
-31.8% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$13.66
-5.2% nationwide $8.24
Subsidy per ride
$13.14
-4.7% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
3.8%
-10.8% nationwide 11%
Passenger miles
1.1M
average trip 6.26 miles
Operating cost
$2.4M
Vehicles in service
10
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
9.02
19.4K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 2024.

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 175,378 1,097,866 19,445 $2,395,656 $13.66 $13.14 3.8% 10

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 The Hop reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 175,378 1,097,866 301,699 19,445 $2,395,656 $90,927 $13.66 $13.14 3.8%
2023 257,200 1,610,462 444,717 28,571 $3,704,924 $157,672 $14.40 $13.79 4.3%
2022 225,350 1,361,217 450,388 29,915 $3,759,333 $131,277 $16.68 $16.10 3.5%
2021 183,975 991,993 411,326 25,820 $2,502,549 $96,600 $13.60 $13.08 3.9%
2020 213,530 1,228,750 425,505 26,807 $2,177,592 $113,384 $10.20 $9.67 5.2%
2019 342,435 2,029,350 423,254 26,790 $2,313,782 $242,148 $6.76 $6.05 10.5%
2018 442,325 2,650,389 476,521 31,153 $2,922,661 $277,697 $6.61 $5.98 9.5%
2017 547,649 3,041,780 603,592 39,762 $3,344,407 $339,107 $6.11 $5.49 10.1%
2016 603,876 3,313,169 708,855 46,968 $3,310,472 $353,033 $5.48 $4.90 10.7%
2015 634,583 3,567,792 706,563 46,553 $3,147,440 $276,172 $4.96 $4.52 8.8%