Information on rail, bus, and parking ridership from Metro's fare system is available from the links below as interactive online dashboards. Bus and rail data is from 2010 to present, parking data is from 2012 to present and is updated approximately monthly on a 30-day lag. 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

Covid-19 Ridership Monitoring

Metrorail and Metrobus ridership data through the covid-19 public health emergency is available on our Public Information page.

Rail Ridership

Entries and exits from Metrorail faregates.

• Rail Ridership Data Viewer
• Rail Ridership Year-over-Year Change Data Viewer

Bus Ridership

Boarding data from metrobus as measured by farebox, including cash and other transactions.
Note that since March 2019, bus ridership data reported here is incomplete (see technical notes for details).

• Bus Ridership Data Viewer
• Bus Ridership Year-over-Year Change Data Viewer
  

Metro Parking Usage

• Metro Parking Usage Data Viewer
• Metro Parking Usage Year-over-Year Change Data Viewer
  

Other Ridership Data and Technical Notes

• How to Use and Interpret Metro Ridership Data and Technical Notes
• 2017 Historical Metrorail Ridership
• 2017-06 Metrobus Ridership
  

Ridership Snapshot Archives

• 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