List of North American rapid transit systems by ridership

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This is a list of North American rapid transit systems by ridership. These heavy rail or rapid transit systems are also known as metro or subway systems. This list of systems in North America does not include light rail, even when they are integrated with heavy rail. Daily and annual ridership figures are based on "average weekday unlinked passenger trips" (where transfers between lines are counted as two separate passenger "boardings" or "trips"), unless otherwise indicated. For metro systems in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada, the annual ridership figures for 2019 and average weekday ridership figures for the Fourth Quarter (Q4) of 2019 come from the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) ridership reports statistics, unless otherwise noted. Ridership figures for Mexico come from the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (INEGI), specifically the Economy and Productive Sectors - Passenger Transit information. Ridership figures for the Dominican Republic come from the Directorate of Operations Santo Domingo Metro report for the year 2013.


System Country City/area
served
Annual
ridership
(2022)
Avg. daily
weekday
boardings
(Q3 2023)
System
length
Avg. daily
boardings
per mile
(Q3 2023)
Year
opened
Stations Lines
1 New York City Subway United States New York City 2,027,286,000 6,593,700 248 miles (399 km) 25,251 1904 472 24
2 Mexico City Metro Mexico Mexico City 1,115,300,000 2,397,892 140.75 miles (226.5 km) 30,984 1969 195 12
3 Montreal Metro Canada Montreal 303,969,500 1,046,300 43 miles (69 km) 21,816 1966 68 4
4 Toronto subway Canada Toronto 302,527,000 1,029,000 47.8 miles (76.9 km) 20,305 1954 70 3
5 Washington Metro United States Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area 136,303,200 474,000 129 miles (208 km) 3,683 1976 98 6
6 Chicago 'L' United States Chicago 117,447,000 373,800 102.8 miles (165.4 km) 3,780 1892 145 8
7 Metrorrey Mexico Monterrey 138,709,000 380,024 25 miles (40 km) 25,605 1991 40 3
8 SkyTrain Canada Vancouver 141,339,300 446,400 49.5 miles (79.6 km) 9,030 1985 53 3
9 MBTA subway
(Blue, Orange, and Red Lines)
United States Boston 85,397,200 267,100 39.5 miles (63.6 km) 7,187 1901 53 4
10 BART United States San Francisco
Bay Area
48,119,400 160,400 131.4 miles (211.5 km) 1,252 1972 48 6
11 SEPTA Metro
(Broad Street (Orange),
Market–Frankford (Blue), and Norristown High Speed Lines)
United States Philadelphia 90,240,800 329,200 36.7 miles (59.1 km) 8,929 1907 75 3
12 PATH United States Jersey City, Newark, NJ 90,276,600 306,700 13.8 miles (22.2 km) 22,464 1908 13 5
13 MARTA United States Atlanta 63,998,500 48 miles (77 km) 4,288 1979 38 4
14 Panama Metro Panama Panama City 91,932,890 180,000[needs update] 22.9 miles (36.9 km) 21,176 2014 31 2
15 Santo Domingo Metro Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 61,270,054[needs update] 177,844
[needs update]
17.0 miles (27.4 km) 10,461 2009 30 2
16 Metro Rail
(B and D Lines)
United States Los Angeles 41,775,100 130,900 17.4 miles (28.0 km) 7,994 1993 16 2
17 Miami Metrorail United States Miami 13,439,300 48,300 24.9 miles (40.1 km) 2,723 1984 23 2
18 PATCO Speedline United States Philadelphia 11,107,500 38,400 14.2 miles (22.9 km) 2,732 1936 13 1
19 Staten Island Railway United States New York City 7,741,000 18,500 14.0 miles (22.5 km) 2,100 1860 22 1
20 Baltimore Metro SubwayLink United States Baltimore 7,325,500 36,600 15.5 miles (24.9 km) 884 1983 14 1
21 RTA Rapid Transit
(Red Line)
United States Cleveland 5,958,000 15,900 19 miles (31 km) 1,000 1955 18 1
22 Tren Urbano Puerto Rico (United States) San Juan 5,233,900 20,300 10.7 miles (17.2 km) 1,963 2004 16 1
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For a given population size, New York, some Mexican and Canadian cities tend to have higher public transit usage.
Note: This data goes beyond rapid transit and encompasses all public transport, including modes such as buses.

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