| Sioux City Transit | |
| Headquarters: | 509 Nebraska Street, Sioux City, IA |
| Locale: | Sioux City, Iowa |
| Service Area: | Woodbury County, Iowa |
| Service Type: | bus service, paratransit |
| Routes: | 10 |
| Website: | Sioux City Transit |
Sioux City Transit, is the primary provider of mass transportation in Woodbury County, Iowa. Ten routes operate from Monday through Saturday. Via Route 9, a connection can also be made with the suburb of South Sioux City, Nebraska across the Missouri River. However, beginning January 3, 2009, Route 9 only operates Monday-Friday.
The MLK Transportation Center serves as the primary hub of Sioux City Transit, located at 505 Nebraska Street in downtown Sioux City. In addition to serving all 10 Sioux City Transit routes, the facility also serves the intercity bus carrier Jefferson Lines. The facility was constructed in February 2003 for $11.6 million. At the time, it served Greyhound Lines buses as well, but Greyhound eliminated Sioux City service in August 2004. The transportation center offers a spacious lobby for travelers to wait indoors for their buses, retail space, Sioux City Transit headquarters, 472 parking spaces, and skywalk accessibility to the Orpheum Theatre, Frances Building and access to all of the buildings in the skywalk system.[1] [2] [3]
The ridership and service statistics shown here are of fixed route services only and do not include demand response. Per capita statistics are based on the Sioux City urbanized area as reported in NTD data. Starting in 2011, 2010 census numbers replace the 2000 census numbers to calculate per capita statistics.[4]
| Ridership | Change | Ridership per capita | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 799,389 | n/a | 7.53 |
| 2006 | 848,517 | 6.15% | 8.0 |
| 2007 | 967,890 | 14.07% | 9.12 |
| 2008 | 1,107,825 | 14.46% | 10.44 |
| 2009 | 1,134,936 | 2.45% | 10.69 |
| 2010 | 1,167,937 | 2.91% | 11.01 |
| 2011 | 1,225,648 | 4.94% | 11.51 |
| 2012 | 1,092,348 | 10.88% | 10.26 |
| 2013 | 1,089,485 | 0.26% | 10.23 |
| 2014 | 1,106,189 | 1.53% | 10.39 |
| 2015 | 1,069,990 | 3.27% | 10.05 |
| 2016 | 971,093 | 9.24% | 9.12 |
| 2017 | 860,202 | 11.42% | 8.08 |
| 2018 | 848,699 | 1.34% | 7.97 |
| 2019 | 828,653 | 2.36% | 7.78 |
| 2020 | 529,039 | 36.16% | 4.97 |
| 2021 | 558,441 | 5.56% | 5.24 |
| 2022 | 616,156 | 10.34% | 5.79 |