Amtrak Ridership by Year (1971–2025)

Published: August 14, 2026

This page is the reference table for Amtrak fiscal-year ridership long hosted on American-Rails.com’s Amtrak article. Years 1971–2019 come from the research compiled for that piece (sources: Amtrak: An American Story, Amtrak annual reports, and Bureau of Transportation Statistics). FY2024–FY2025 peaks are from Amtrak’s public year-end reporting. For company history and the national network, return to the Amtrak hub.

On this page: How to read the tables · 1971–2019 tables · FY2024–FY2025 · Related

How to Read the Tables

Fiscal year — Amtrak’s year runs October–September.
Ridership — customer trips / boardings as reported in the cited sources.
Passenger-miles — millions of passenger-miles.
Passenger revenue — ticket/passenger revenue (millions unless labeled billions).
COVID-era years 2020–2023 are not in the original AR table; use Amtrak annual reports for those exacts.

Fiscal Years 1971–2019

Fiscal year	Ridership	Passenger-miles (millions)	Passenger revenue (millions)
1971	6,450,304	â€”	â€”
1972	15,848,327	3.038	$170
1973	16,958,056	3.806	$200
1974	18,670,319	4.258	$256.9
1975	17,269,000	3.939	$252.7
1976	18,046,136	4.155	$277.8
1977	18,961,876	4.333	$310
1978	18,922,652	4.029	$315
1979	21,406,768	4.915	$375
1980	21,219,149	4.582	$428.7
1981	20,609,944	4.762	$612.2
1982	19,042,325	4.172	$630.7
1983	19,038,563	4.246	$664.4
1984	19,943,075	4.552	$758.8
1985	20,776,091	4.825	$825.8
1986	20,327,909	5.013	$861.4
1987	20,414,714	5.221	$847
1988	21,496,303	5.678	$947
1989	21,363,151	5.859	$1.072B
1990	22,186,300	6.057	$878
1991	22,062,425	6.273	$908
1992	21,345,247	6.091	$872
1993	22,065,869	6.199	$885
1994	21,837,626	5.921	$827
1995	20,726,490	5.545	$827
1996	19,605,398	5.050	$850
1997	20,190,450	5.166	$916
1998	21,094,165	5.304	$946
1999	21,508,694	5.330	$1.003 billion
2000	22,517,264	5.498	$1.088 billion
2001	23,493,805	5.559	$1.178 billion
2002	23,406,597	5.468	$1.250 billion
2003	24,028,119	5.503	$1.183 billion
2004	25,053,564	5.558	$1.231 billion
2005	25,374,998	5.420	$1.216 billion
2006	24,392,065	5.362	$1.371 billion
2007	25,847,503	5.652	$1.519 billion
2008	28,716,403	6.160	$1.732 billion
2009	27,166,936	5.898	$1.599 billion
2010	28,716,804	6.332	$1.743 billion
2011	30,200,000	6.568	$2.683 billion
2012	31,200,000	6.752	$2.866 billion
2013	31,600,000	7.283	$2.990 billion
2014	30,900,000	6.675	$3.236 billion
2015	30,900,000	6.536	$3.211 billion
2016	31,300,000	6.520	$3.200 billion
2017	31,700,000	6.563	$3.306 billion
2018	31,700,000	6.361	$3.387 billion
2019	32,500,000	6.420	$3.506 billion

1971–1989: compiled in AR research from Amtrak: An American Story. 1990–2019: Amtrak annual reports, BTS, and the same volume. Ridership rose from a Day One base of about 6.5 million (partial 1971) through energy-crisis peaks, mid-1990s dips, and the Acela-era climb past 30 million annual trips by 2011 to about 32.5 million in 2019.

Recent Record Years (FY2024–FY2025)

Fiscal year	Ridership (customer trips)	Notes
FY2024	~32.8 million	Post-pandemic recovery (Amtrak / contemporary press)
FY2025	~34.5 million	All-time record; ~5.1% over FY2024; record ticket revenue (Amtrak year-end, Nov. 2025)

Ridership leaf split from the Amtrak hub August 2026.

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Amtrak Ridership by Year (1971–2025)

How to Read the Tables

Fiscal Years 1971–2019

Recent Record Years (FY2024–FY2025)

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