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Public transit in Texas

Transit agencies registered in Texas reported 237,591,698 unlinked passenger trips on rows with a mode in report year 2025, according to the Federal Transit Administration.

Texas in the National Transit Database

237.6 million
Unlinked passenger trips
Rows with a mode, 2025
237,591,698
Rank 8 of 56 states and territories ranked; a tie shares a rank.
283.6 million
Vehicle revenue miles
Rows with a mode, 2025
283,553,601
94
Reporting records
Registered in Texas, 2025
Every record reported trips on each of its rows with a mode.
About these figures
Unlinked passenger trips
237,591,698
Rank 8 of 56 states and territories ranked; a tie shares a rank.
Vehicle revenue miles
283,553,601
Reporting records
Every record reported trips on each of its rows with a mode.

Rows the publisher gives no mode carry 812,935 further trips for these agencies. They are in no mode, in no rank and not in the total above.

Agencies in Texas, by trips

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Transit agencies registered in Texas by unlinked passenger trips, 2025, most first
RankAgencyUnlinked passenger trips
1Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas78,695,918
2Dallas Area Rapid Transit54,305,457
3VIA Metropolitan Transit31,360,336
4Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority26,454,075
5Fort Worth Transportation Authority6,582,189
6Texas A&M University6,490,496
7City of El Paso6,247,053
8Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority3,836,725
9Denton County Transportation Authority2,976,666
10Texas State University2,614,582
11City of Lubbock2,460,676
12City of Laredo1,821,142
13City of Brownsville1,224,296
14City of Waco883,838
15City of McAllen679,618
16City of Arlington605,453
17El Paso County533,904
18The Woodlands Township515,098
19Brazos Transit District513,576
20University of Texas Rio Grande Valley500,876
21Hill Country Transit District490,733
22City of South Padre Island452,268
23Fort Bend County, Texas407,244
24Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council330,639
25City of Beaumont312,020
26City of Abilene310,221
27Concho Valley Transit District306,020
28Golden Crescent Regional Planning Commission305,913
29McKinney Avenue Transit Authority305,271
30Texarkana Urban Transit District288,781
31City of Amarillo287,776
32Midland-Odessa Urban Transit District261,315
33City of Wichita Falls251,830
34City of Galveston240,069
35Panhandle Community Services229,351
36Harris County220,938
37City of Tyler199,943
38Gulf Coast Transit District193,950
39Capital Area Rural Transportation System190,610
40STAR Transit189,901
41City of Grand Prairie184,607
42City of Longview155,871
43East Texas Council of Governments155,101
44Southwest Area Regional Transit District149,883
45Ark-Tex Council of Governments131,361
46Rural Economic Assistance League, Inc.126,985
47Alamo Area Council of Governments126,412
48Central Texas Rural Transit District123,133
49South Plains Community Action Association, Inc.115,175
50City of Conroe103,130
51City of San Marcos101,155
52City of Port Arthur90,822
53Senior Center Resources and Public Transit, Inc.87,335
54City of McKinney85,922
55City of Round Rock77,547
56West Texas Opportunities, Inc.77,068
57Rolling Plains Management Corporation74,687
58Colorado Valley Transit District64,823
59Public Transit Services64,279
60South East Texas Regional Planning Commission56,192
61Webb County44,830
62Community Services, Inc.44,104
63SPAN, Incorporated43,258
64City of Del Rio40,477
65Texoma Area Paratransit System, Inc40,100
66Kleberg County30,641
67Heart of Texas Council of Governments29,558
68McLennan County27,808
69City of Cleburne20,810
70The Transit System, Inc.20,357
71Aspermont Small Business Development Center, Inc.12,551
72South Texas College6,152
73City of Socorro2,797
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode
Greyhound Lines, Inc.No row with a mode

73 of 94 records are ranked. A record is ranked only when every one of its rows with a mode reports trips.

Modes in Texas

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Annual unlinked passenger trips and vehicle revenue miles in Texas by mode, 2025
ModeUnlinked passenger trips
Bus176,909,085
Light rail35,258,974
Demand response14,182,698
Commuter bus5,122,491
Commuter rail2,186,567
Vanpool2,182,788
Hybrid rail885,786
Streetcar rail863,309

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Sources

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

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