Ridership Data Portal
Information on rail, bus, and parking ridership from Metro's data systems is available at the links below as interactive online dashboards. Rail data is from 2012 to present, bus data is from 2019 to present and parking data is from 2012 to present. These are updated regularly with some lag depending on the data source. All data on the below dashboards should be considered preliminary.
Ridership Snapshots present a high-level overview of trends by month, and technical notes explain more details about the data.
Latest Ridership Snapshot (pdf) | Snapshot Archives | Other Ridership Data and Technical Notes
Daily Bus and Rail Ridership
These dashboards show daily systemwide ridership totals for Metrorail and Metrobus since 2019.
Rail Ridership
These dashboards show entries and exits from Metrorail faregates in detail.
Bus Ridership
These dashboards show boardings on Metrobus in detail as measured by passenger counting devices on-board the vehicles.
Before January of 2019, ridership on buses was recorded and reported using taps on fareboxes. The dashboards below show these data for that time period.
Metro Parking Usage
Other Ridership Data and Technical Notes
Ridership Snapshot Archives
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019