Wilkes Transportation Authority

Demand Response at Wilkes Transportation Authority

Wilkes Transportation Authority carried 93,060 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $16.43 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Wilkesboro, NC
FY2025 boardings
93.1K
+0.7% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$16.43
+9% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$15.50
+10.7% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
5.7%
-20.6% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$1.53M
Vehicles in service
22
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.49
62.6K 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 93,060 — 62,579 $1,528,596 $16.43 $15.50 5.7% 22

Full series

Every year Wilkes Transportation Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 93,060 — 1,082,650 62,579 $1,528,596 $86,487 $16.43 $15.50 5.7%
2024 92,410 — 1,013,034 61,114 $1,392,295 $99,185 $15.07 $13.99 7.1%
2023 94,139 — 935,375 55,785 $1,229,411 $96,912 $13.06 $12.03 7.9%
2022 54,811 — 727,769 43,148 $1,016,433 $78,876 $18.54 $17.11 7.8%
2021 41,791 — 599,420 36,763 $1,128,677 $65,570 $27.01 $25.44 5.8%
2020 47,598 — 650,364 39,799 $1,303,034 $62,650 $27.38 $26.06 4.8%
2019 54,013 — 703,379 42,839 $1,603,839 $82,502 $29.69 $28.17 5.1%
2018 55,660 — 733,895 44,138 $1,156,173 $49,467 $20.77 $19.88 4.3%
2017 60,815 — 679,829 42,595 $1,444,443 $41,802 $23.75 $23.06 2.9%
2016 49,646 — 605,038 35,622 $1,173,742 $23,381 $23.64 $23.17 2%
2015 44,386 — 514,062 30,029 $877,236 $29,570 $19.76 $19.10 3.4%