49 Major Metropolitan Areas
Annual Boardings: 1980-1997

  1980 1990 1997 1980-97 Rank 1990-7 Rank
Atlanta 120.2 149.5 172.7 43.7% 12 15.5% 12
Austin 7.2 32.0 32.0 343.3% 2 -0.0% 21
Boston-Worcester-Lawrence 267.5 341.1 334.6 25.1% 17 -1.9% 22
Buffalo-Niagara Falls 37.1 30.4 26.1 -29.6% 33 -14.0% 37
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill 10.2 12.1 11.4 11.7% 20 -5.6% 26
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha 789.8 697.5 547.9 -30.6% 35 -21.4% 45
Cincinnati-Hamilton 43.3 35.3 29.7 -31.5% 36 -15.9% 39
Cleveland-Akron 134.4 81.1 73.5 -45.3% 45 -9.4% 32
Columbus 20.0 18.3 17.8 -11.3% 26 -3.2% 23
Dallas-Ft. Worth 45.2 55.5 64.5 42.9% 13 16.2% 11
Denver-Boulder-Greeley 46.9 55.7 71.1 51.5% 11 27.7% 7
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Fliint 129.6 100.7 72.7 -43.9% 43 -27.8% 49
Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland 4.8 4.3 3.8 -21.5% 32 -12.5% 35
Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point 5.0 5.9 5.3 6.0% 21 -8.7% 30
Hartford 21.2 20.8 17.4 -17.7% 29 -16.2% 40
Honolulu 74.1 73.5 68.6 -7.3% 25 -6.6% 28
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria 46.9 91.1 87.8 87.2% 7 -3.6% 24
Indianapolis 16.4 12.6 9.8 -40.4% 39 -22.4% 47
Jacksonville 16.7 8.8 8.5 -49.1% 48 -3.7% 25
Kansas City 26.2 18.5 14.6 -44.4% 44 -21.4% 44
Las Vegas 4.9 7.4 43.1 781.1% 1 486.0% 1
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co 480.6 525.9 550.3 14.5% 19 4.6% 17
Memphis 24.4 13.9 12.4 -49.0% 47 -10.3% 33
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale 85.1 91.5 104.0 22.3% 18 13.6% 14
Milwaukee 88.0 67.9 72.4 -17.7% 30 6.7% 16
Minneapolis-St. Paul 105.2 69.6 62.1 -41.0% 40 -10.8% 34
Nashville 18.0 8.6 6.8 -62.2% 49 -21.2% 43
New Orleans 103.5 82.3 60.9 -41.1% 41 -26.0% 48
New York-NNJ-Long Island 2976.4 2810.2 2873.3 -3.5% 24 2.2% 19
Norfolk-Virginia Bch-Newport News 22.2 13.5 15.6 -29.9% 34 15.0% 13
Oklahoma City 2.6 3.5 3.3 29.2% 14 -5.8% 27
Orlando 5.7 8.0 17.1 201.3% 3 113.2% 3
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City 395.5 371.8 321.1 -18.8% 31 -13.6% 36
Phoenix-Mesa 14.3 31.1 34.7 142.7% 5 11.6% 15
Pittsburgh 108.6 86.7 72.1 -33.6% 37 -16.8% 41
Portland-Salem 50.3 60.9 80.9 60.8% 10 32.7% 6
Providence-Fall River-Warwick 28.5 21.5 16.7 -41.3% 42 -22.3% 46
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill 3.7 4.1 9.2 146.2% 4 123.5% 2
Rochester 25.5 15.2 13.1 -48.8% 46 -14.1% 38
Sacramento-Yolo 17.0 20.4 29.3 72.5% 9 43.6% 5
Salt Lake City-Ogden 19.1 23.7 24.3 27.3% 15 2.5% 18
San Antonio 36.9 41.9 38.0 2.9% 23 -9.3% 31
San Diego 44.2 67.1 82.4 86.4% 8 22.7% 8
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose 538.3 456.5 463.3 -13.9% 27 1.5% 20
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton 98.2 100.8 123.3 25.6% 16 22.3% 9
St. Louis 84.2 44.4 54.2 -35.7% 38 22.1% 10
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater 18.9 19.7 16.0 -15.5% 28 -19.0% 42
Washington-Baltimore 422.1 489.1 447.4 6.0% 22 -8.5% 29
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton 2.0 2.4 4.0 101.7% 6 66.4% 4
Major Metropolitan 7686.4 7404.5 7320.9 -4.8%   -1.1%  
Rest of US 548.6 435.9 501.5 -8.6%   15.0%  
United States 8235.0 7840.4 7822.5 -5.0%   -0.2%  
In Millions

Table includes all 48 metropolitan areas with more than one million population in 1997 and one smaller metropolitan area, Honolulu, which is the only smaller metropolitan area with more than 20 annual unlinked boardings per capita.

Calculated from National Transit Database information.



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