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Public transit in Kentucky

Transit agencies registered in Kentucky reported 15,572,985 unlinked passenger trips on rows with a mode in report year 2025, according to the Federal Transit Administration.

Kentucky in the National Transit Database

15.6 million
Unlinked passenger trips: Rows with a mode, 2025; 15,572,985; Rank 31 of 56 states and territories ranked; a tie shares a rank.; 46.2 million
Vehicle revenue miles: Rows with a mode, 2025; 46,182,386; 34
Reporting records: Registered in Kentucky, 2025; Every record reported trips on each of its rows with a mode.

About these figures

Unlinked passenger trips: 15,572,985; Rank 31 of 56 states and territories ranked; a tie shares a rank.
Vehicle revenue miles: 46,182,386
Reporting records: Every record reported trips on each of its rows with a mode.

Rows the publisher gives no mode carry 2,975 further trips for these agencies. They are in no mode, in no rank and not in the total above.

Agencies in Kentucky, by trips

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Transit agencies registered in Kentucky by unlinked passenger trips, 2025, most first
Rank	Agency	City	Reporter type	Unlinked passenger trips	Vehicle revenue miles
1	Transit Authority of River City	Louisville	Full Reporter	6,693,302	9,629,258
2	Lexington Transit Authority	Lexington	Full Reporter	3,815,749	3,045,527
3	Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky	Covington	Full Reporter	2,041,103	3,489,239
4	Rural Transit Enterprises Coordinated, Inc.	Mount Vernon	Rural Reporter	529,665	4,829,880
5	City of Owensboro	Owensboro	Reduced Reporter	295,356	423,831
6	Bluegrass Community Action Agency	Frankfort	Rural Reporter	261,933	2,214,935
7	Sandy Valley Transportation Services	Prestonsburg	Rural Reporter	206,610	2,760,886
8	Paducah Transit Authority	Paducah	Reduced Reporter	192,720	756,338
9	Audubon Area Community Services, Inc.	Owensboro	Reduced Reporter	149,912	1,734,980
10	Pennyrile Allied Community Services, Inc.	Hopkinsville	Rural Reporter	144,897	1,824,481
11	City of Frankfort	Frankfort	Rural Reporter	124,507	333,668
12	KY River Foothills Development Council, Inc.	Richmond	Rural Reporter	111,896	545,990
13	Transit Authority of Central Kentucky	Elizabethtown	Full Reporter	96,673	1,430,514
14	Daniel Boone Development Council	Manchester	Rural Reporter	91,808	2,137,443
15	Leslie, Knott, Letcher & Perry Community Action	Hazard	Rural Reporter	89,927	1,727,164
16	City of Henderson KY	Henderson	Rural Reporter	85,491	197,638
17	City of Ashland	Ashland	Reduced Reporter	81,081	273,160
18	Central Kentucky Community Action Council	Lebanon	Rural Reporter	76,912	1,918,688
19	Northeast KY Area Development Council	Olive Hill	Rural Reporter	76,416	802,122
20	City of Bowling Green	Bowling Green	Reduced Reporter	70,482	202,758
21	Licking Valley CAP	Flemingsburg	Rural Reporter	59,830	1,268,085
22	Murray-Calloway County Transit Authority	Murray	Rural Reporter	52,528	620,203
23	Fulton County Transit Authority	Fulton	Rural Reporter	51,727	1,514,175
24	Harlan County Community Action Agency, Inc.	Harlan	Rural Reporter	46,753	872,992
25	Louisville WHEELS Transportation, Inc	Louisville	Reduced Reporter	39,424	599,565
26	Middle Kentucky River Area Development Council, Inc.	Jackson	Rural Reporter	19,686	425,351
27	City of Maysville	Maysville	Rural Reporter	19,674	66,366
28	City of La Grange	La Grange	Rural Reporter	10,455	31,776
29	City of Scottsville	Scottsville	Rural Reporter	10,331	29,517
30	City of Glasgow	Glasgow	Rural Reporter	8,566	38,868
31	Owen County Fiscal Court	Owenton	Rural Reporter	7,231	280,548
32	Carroll County Wellness Transit	Carrollton	Rural Reporter	6,042	115,173
33	Gateway Community Services Organization	West Liberty	Rural Reporter	4,298	41,267
	Miller Transportation, Inc.	Louisville	Rural Reporter	No row with a mode	Not reported

33 of 34 records are ranked. A record is ranked only when every one of its rows with a mode reports trips.

Modes in Kentucky

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Annual unlinked passenger trips and vehicle revenue miles in Kentucky by mode, 2025
Mode	Agencies	Unlinked passenger trips	Vehicle revenue miles
Bus	17	12,953,974	12,515,965
Demand response	28	2,612,287	33,552,683
Vanpool	1	6,724	113,738

Rankings this appears in

No. 31 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