Chicago micromobility trips
Trips on Chicago’s shared bikes, e-bikes and scooters: how many each year, and where they start and end.
In 2025, riders took 12.95 million trips on Chicago’s shared bikes, e-bikes and scooters: 7.40 million on scooters and 5.55 million on municipal bikes, 64.9% of them e-bikes.
01 Trips per year
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Municipal bikes through 2026-08 · scooters through 2025-12-31
02 Trips by community area
Community areas, with Evanston and Oak Park · changes compare the same months
Trips are counted where they start and end. They say nothing about who rode or why. Per-resident figures divide an area’s trips by its population.
03 Municipal starts and ends
Municipal bikes only: scooter trips are published by area, not location
04 Station to station
2023 wards · 2020 census tracts
05 Data & methods
Built from Divvy’s trip files and the City of Chicago’s e-scooter trip tables.
Sources and pull dates
Trip files: Divvy’s monthly divvy-tripdata files (System Data), 2013-06-27 to 2026-08, pulled 2026-10-02, under the Divvy Data License Agreement. Not republished: the maps load only the counts they draw.
City of Chicago data portal, pulled 2026-10-02: E-Scooter Trips, 2019 pilot, 2020 and 2022 on (to 2025-12-31); Divvy Trips, 2013–2019; community areas; 2023 wards; the Equity Priority Area.
Census Bureau TIGERweb: 2020 blocks and tracts, Evanston and Oak Park.
Every figure is in facts.json. The City and Census tables are on GitHub: Chicago-Micromobility.
What counts as a trip
Every trip, including those under 60 seconds, as the City counts. Left out: trips that end before they start (11,201 municipal, 3,285 scooter). Corrected and kept: 239 rides across the November clock change. Repeated ride ids count once (307 rows).
Classic bikes in the scooter table
From 2024-07 the City’s scooter table also lists municipal classic-bike rides, under “Lyft”. Matched trip by trip (start hour, length to the second, start and end area) and removed: 1,406,855 rides in 2024 and 1,919,491 in 2025, 95% of classic rides. Chance alone matches 2%.
Check against the City’s totals
2025: the City announced 12.9 million trips, 6.8 million municipal and 6.1 million Lime (press release); this page counts 12.95 million, 6.87 million and 6.09 million. 2024: 11,028,554 and 6,681,480 municipal (Streetsblog); this page counts 11,024,782 and 6,700,455.
Gaps
No scooter trips for 2023-10 to 2023-12, and no scooter table for 2021. The 2019 pilot names no companies, so its trips count as other scooters.
Placement
E-bike trips ending away from a station are known only to a cell about 0.7 by 0.5 mile (22% of 2025 trip ends) and are placed by its center. Scooter trips are known only by community area. Wards are the 2023 map; tracts are 2020.
The City’s 2013–2019 table
The trip files match the City’s 2013–2019 table except 2015 (203 more trips) and 2018 (340 more).
Evanston and Oak Park
Shown with municipal bike trips only. Oak Park had stations only in 2016–2018.
How this was made
Built by an AI agent (Claude) with the author, who set the counting rules. No person has re-checked the classic-ride match.
Terms
Not affiliated with or authorized by Divvy or Lyft Bikes and Scooters, LLC. Text is CC BY 4.0; municipal trip data stays under the Divvy Data License Agreement and is not offered for reuse.
Blandford, Connor Ulrich. “Chicago micromobility trips.” connorblandford.com, 2026-10-02 (data release 2026-10-02). https://connorblandford.com/projects/chicago-micromobility/. Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23106923; all releases: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23106922.