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Public transit in Iowa

Transit agencies registered in Iowa reported 20,145,578 unlinked passenger trips on rows with a mode in report year 2025, according to the Federal Transit Administration.

Iowa in the National Transit Database

20.1 million
Unlinked passenger trips: Rows with a mode, 2025; 20,145,578; Rank 30 of 56 states and territories ranked; a tie shares a rank.; 25.7 million
Vehicle revenue miles: Rows with a mode, 2025; 25,722,213; 42
Reporting records: Registered in Iowa, 2025; Every record reported trips on each of its rows with a mode.

About these figures

Unlinked passenger trips: 20,145,578; Rank 30 of 56 states and territories ranked; a tie shares a rank.
Vehicle revenue miles: 25,722,213
Reporting records: Every record reported trips on each of its rows with a mode.

Rows the publisher gives no mode carry 77,018 further trips for these agencies. They are in no mode, in no rank and not in the total above.

Agencies in Iowa, by trips

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Transit agencies registered in Iowa by unlinked passenger trips, 2025, most first
Rank	Agency	City	Reporter type	Unlinked passenger trips	Vehicle revenue miles
1	Ames Transit Agency	Ames	Full Reporter	4,980,955	1,392,883
2	Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority	Des Moines	Full Reporter	3,697,984	4,298,861
3	University of Iowa	Iowa City	Full Reporter	2,684,799	605,936
4	City of Iowa City	Iowa City	Full Reporter	1,753,357	777,030
5	City of Cedar Rapids	Cedar Rapids	Full Reporter	1,275,357	1,160,176
6	City of Sioux City	Sioux City	Full Reporter	664,642	846,358
7	City of Davenport	Davenport	Full Reporter	634,771	631,602
8	Southwest Iowa Planning Council	Atlantic	Rural Reporter	530,130	1,707,227
9	City of Dubuque	Dubuque	Reduced Reporter	395,352	555,756
10	City of Coralville	Coralville	Full Reporter	341,098	200,132
11	10-15 Regional Transit Agency	Ottumwa	Rural Reporter	307,546	2,544,675
12	City of Clinton	Clinton	Rural Reporter	234,182	346,908
13	Metropolitan Transit Authority of Black Hawk County	Waterloo	Reduced Reporter	229,805	751,432
14	North Iowa Area Council of Governments	Mason City	Rural Reporter	217,221	829,924
15	River Bend Transit	Davenport	Full Reporter	173,791	833,949
16	City of Mason City	Mason City	Rural Reporter	144,139	216,725
17	East Central Iowa Council of Governments	Cedar Rapids	Reduced Reporter	142,026	781,175
18	City of Marshalltown	Marshalltown	Rural Reporter	130,332	109,164
19	Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency	Urbandale	Full Reporter	125,340	671,704
20	City of Burlington	Burlington	Rural Reporter	117,373	179,912
21	County of Johnson, Iowa	Iowa City	Full Reporter	116,086	530,026
22	City of Muscatine	Muscatine	Rural Reporter	110,922	241,701
23	Regional Transit Authority	Spencer	Rural Reporter	105,608	601,439
24	City of Fort Dodge	Fort Dodge	Rural Reporter	102,580	228,260
25	Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission	West Burlington	Rural Reporter	100,559	304,315
26	Mid Iowa Development Association Council of Governments	Fort Dodge	Rural Reporter	96,413	145,287
27	Delaware, Dubuque & Jackson County Regional Transit Authority	Dubuque	Rural Reporter	96,081	450,410
28	Region 12 Council of Governments	Carroll	Rural Reporter	95,595	741,262
29	Northeast Iowa Community Action Corporation	Decorah	Rural Reporter	94,296	580,332
30	Siouxland Interstate Metropolitan Planning Council	Sioux City	Rural Reporter	83,418	454,678
31	Southern Iowa Trolley	Creston	Rural Reporter	75,849	292,512
32	City of Bettendorf	Bettendorf	Reduced Reporter	50,895	166,848
33	Linn County	Cedar Rapids	Reduced Reporter	48,815	277,533
34	Iowa County	Marengo	Rural Reporter	42,674	179,975
35	Washington County	Washington	Rural Reporter	39,692	161,064
36	Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments	Waterloo	Rural Reporter	34,721	324,485
37	Region Six Planning Commission	Marshalltown	Rural Reporter	33,933	196,133
38	Benton County	Vinton	Rural Reporter	19,626	205,909
39	Jones County	Anamosa	Rural Reporter	17,615	198,515
	Burlington Stage Lines	West Burlington	Rural Reporter	No row with a mode	Not reported
	Burlington Stage Lines	West Burlington	Rural Reporter	No row with a mode	Not reported
	Burlington Stage Lines	West Burlington	Rural Reporter	No row with a mode	Not reported

39 of 42 records are ranked. A record is ranked only when every one of its rows with a mode reports trips.

Modes in Iowa

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Annual unlinked passenger trips and vehicle revenue miles in Iowa by mode, 2025
Mode	Agencies	Unlinked passenger trips	Vehicle revenue miles
Bus	19	17,248,121	10,405,971
Demand response	30	2,695,514	13,912,237
Vanpool	5	107,579	1,061,795
Commuter bus	1	94,364	342,210

Rankings this appears in

No. 30 States by transit agency trips, 2025: New York leads with 3.5 billion

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Sources

Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database — transit service by agency and mode, 2025 report year — Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database · U.S. Government work · retrieved November 5, 2026
Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database — every reporting transit agency, 2025 report year

Compiled automatically from Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database — transit service by agency and mode, 2025 report year and Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database — every reporting transit agency, 2025 report year by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved November 5, 2026