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