New York City Subway Origin-Destination Ridership Estimates: 2024

2024 data provides estimated passenger volumes for all populated subway origin-destination pairs aggregated by month, day of the week, and hour of day. The dataset includes station names, IDs, and approximate latitude and longitude coordinates for origin and destination complexes, sourced from scaled-up OMNY and MetroCard return swipe data.

Use Cases

• Model passenger flow between station complexes using origin-destination pairs and hourly aggregated volumes.
• Analyze peak travel patterns by correlating passenger volumes with specific hours of the day and days of the week.
• Map ridership density by joining estimated passenger volumes with station latitude and longitude coordinates.
• Compare monthly ridership trends across different origin-destination station pairs.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated by three temporal dimensions: month, day of the week, and hour of the day.
• Includes geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) for station complexes.
• Covers all populated origin-destination pairs within the New York City subway system.
• Dataset was last updated in April 2025, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Ridership figures are estimates derived from scaled-up swipe data, not exact counts.
• Specific sample size, row count, and column definitions are unknown.
• Data format includes RDF and XML, which may require specialized tools for processing.

Provenance

Source

State of New York

Collection Method

Estimated from scaled-up OMNY and MetroCard return swipe data.

Time Range

2024

Freshness

Last updated on 2025-04-19.

Geography

New York City subway system.