List of United States local bus agencies

The following is a list of local bus agencies in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures are unlinked passenger trips for the stated time period and come from the Federal Transit Administration's National Transit Database (NTD).

List The NTD categorizes ridership data by type of service. The data below shows the sum of all categories with a mode of "bus" for each transit agency. Only the top 100 agencies with the most ridership in 2025 are shown.

Rank Transit Agency Urban Area 2023 Annual Ridership 2024 Annual Ridership 2025 Annual Ridership 1 MTA New York City Bus New York--Jersey City--Newark, NY--NJ 2 LACMTA Los Angeles--Long Beach--Anaheim, CA 3 CTA Chicago, IL--IN 4 New Jersey Transit New York--Jersey City--Newark, NY--NJ 5 MTA Bus New York--Jersey City--Newark, NY--NJ 6 SFMTA San Francisco--Oakland, CA 7 WMATA Washington--Arlington, DC--VA--MD 8 SEPTA Philadelphia, PA--NJ--DE--MD 9 MBTA Boston, MA--NH 10 King County Metro Seattle--Tacoma, WA 11 METRO Houston, TX 12 Miami-Dade Transit Miami--Fort Lauderdale, FL 13 RTC Transit Las Vegas--Henderson--Paradise, NV 14 MTA Maryland Baltimore, MD 15 Denver RTD Denver--Aurora, CO 16 TriMet Portland, OR--WA 17 TheBus Honolulu, HI 18 AC Transit San Francisco--Oakland, CA 19 MTS San Diego, CA 20 Metro Transit Minneapolis--St. Paul, MN 21 OCTA Los Angeles--Long Beach--Anaheim, CA 22 MARTA Atlanta, GA 23 PRT Pittsburgh, PA 24 VIA San Antonio, TX 25 DART Dallas--Fort Worth--Arlington, TX 26 Bee-Line Bus System New York--Jersey City--Newark, NY--NJ 27 MCTS Milwaukee, WI 28 CapMetro Austin, TX 29 City of Phoenix Phoenix--Mesa--Scottsdale, AZ 30 BCT Miami--Fort Lauderdale, FL 31 VTA San Jose, CA 32 UTA Salt Lake City, UT 33 LYNX Orlando, FL 34 RTA Cleveland, OH 35 NICE New York--Jersey City--Newark, NY--NJ 36 PACE Chicago, IL--IN 37 LBT Los Angeles--Long Beach--Anaheim, CA 38 Ride On Washington--Arlington, DC--VA--MD 39 CDTA Albany--Schenectady, NY 40 Sun Tran Tucson, AZ 41 Metro Transit St. Louis, MO--IL 42 DDOT Detroit, MI 43 NFTA Buffalo, NY 44 LADOT Los Angeles--Long Beach--Anaheim, CA 45 SORTA Cincinnati, OH--KY 46 COTA Columbus, OH 47 RIPTA Providence, RI--MA 48 Metro Transit Madison, WI 49 GRTC Richmond, VA 50 CT Transit - Hartford Hartford, CT 51 KCATA Kansas City, MO--KS 52 MTD Champaign, IL 53 RGRTA Rochester, NY 54 NORTA New Orleans, LA 55 SamTrans San Francisco--Oakland, CA 56 Spokane Transit Authority Spokane, WA 57 HART Tampa, FL 58 RPTA Phoenix--Mesa--Scottsdale, AZ 59 FAX Fresno, CA 60 PSTA Tampa--St. Petersburg, FL 61 SacRT Sacramento, CA 62 PVTA Springfield, MA--CT 63 Foothill Transit Los Angeles--Long Beach--Anaheim, CA 64 Big Blue Bus Los Angeles--Long Beach--Anaheim, CA 65 Sound Transit Seattle--Tacoma, WA 66 Fairfax Connector Washington--Arlington, DC--VA--MD 67 CATA Lansing, MI 68 Palm Tran Miami--Fort Lauderdale, FL 69 Community Transit Seattle--Tacoma, WA 70 CATS Charlotte, NC--SC 71 WeGo Public Transit Nashville metropolitan area 72 HRT Virginia Beach--Norfolk, VA 73 ART Los Angeles--Long Beach--Anaheim, CA 74 Delaware Transit Corporation Philadelphia, PA--NJ--DE--MD 75 GoRaleigh Raleigh, NC 76 Pierce Transit Seattle--Tacoma, WA 77 Centro Syracuse, NY 78 ABQ RIDE Albuquerque, NM 79 Omnitrans Riverside--San Bernardino, CA 80 SMART Detroit, MI 81 Texas A&M Transportation Services College Station, TX 82 GoDurham Durham, NC 83 RTC Reno, NV--CA 84 IndyGo Indianapolis, IN 85 JTA Jacksonville, FL 86 LTD Eugene, OR 87 TARC Louisville/Jefferson County, KY--IN 88 The Rapid Grand Rapids, MI 89 DASH (bus) Washington--Arlington, DC--VA--MD 90 RTA Riverside--San Bernardino, CA 91 CT Transit - New Haven New Haven, CT 92 RTA Dayton, OH 93 NCTD San Diego, CA 94 Sun Metro El Paso, TX--NM 95 Trinity Metro Dallas--Fort Worth--Arlington, TX 96 METRO RTA Akron, OH 97 AAATA Ann Arbor, MI 98 GBT Bridgeport--Stamford, CT--NY 99 Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District Santa Cruz, California 100 Intercity Transit Olympia--Lacey, WA

See also List of bus transit systems in the United States List of rapid transit systems List of light-rail transit systems List of United States light rail systems by ridership List of United States rapid transit systems by ridership List of suburban and commuter rail systems List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership

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