Subway and bus ridership for 2024

2024 Subway annual ridership rose to 1,195 million, reflecting a 3.7% year-over-year increase and reaching 70% of pre-pandemic levels. Average weekday subway ridership grew by 3% to 3.376 million, which was at 68% of pre-pandemic levels. Weekend ridership experienced stronger growth, climbing 4.3% annually to an average of 4.42 million, equaling 80% of pre-pandemic levels.

Bus ridership in 2024 declined by 4.2% year-over-year, falling to 409 million annual rides. The decrease has been attributed to a rise in fare evasion and the lack of ridership on five bus routes included in the free bus pilot program for 8 months. Average weekday ridership dropped by 5.2% to 1.29 million, while average weekend ridership decreased by 1.8% to 1.46 million.

We operate the largest public transportation agency in North America and one of the largest in the world. The subway has a daily ridership of approximately 3.4 million and bus has a daily ridership of 1.3 million, representing 68% and 60%, respectively, of pre-pandemic ridership levels.

Our system includes:

• 472 subway stations
• 238 local bus routes, 20 Select Bus Service routes, and 75 express routes in the five boroughs

We have 472 stations, the largest number of public transit subway stations of any system in the world. Note that our table lists 424 stations. We combined ridership data for station complexes, where stations are connected by transfer passageways. (We can't accurately allocate ridership to each station in a complex.) For example, the 14 St      station is combined with the 8 Av   station.

The station names and lines stopping at each station reflect service at the end of 2023.

In our spreadsheet, stations are listed alphabetically by borough, and the rankings are by 2023 ridership. The “systemwide adjustment” accounts for miscellaneous ridership and other adjustments that are not allocated by station.

In our tables, stations that were temporarily closed (either fully or partially) are denoted with asterisks; go to the “Closures” tab for the closure dates. For these stations, zero ridership was included in the averages for any days when the station was closed, except for the days when the entire subway was closed or fare-free.

Local routes begin with one or two letters corresponding to the major borough of operation (B = Brooklyn, Bx = Bronx, M = Manhattan, Q = Queens, S = Staten Island). New York City Transit express routes begin with the letter “X”, except for “SIM,” used for express routes established under the Staten Island Express Bus Network Redesign.

MTA Bus express routes begin with “BM” for Brooklyn to Manhattan routes, “BxM” for Bronx to Manhattan routes, and “QM” for Queens to Manhattan routes. In the ridership averages, zero was included for any day during the year on which a given route did not operate, except for the days when the entire bus system was closed or fare-free. In the following tables, certain routes that effectively operate as a single route are combined.

Download our bus ridership data for New York City Transit and MTA Bus Company.