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== Ridership ==
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{{center|'''SEPTA Ridership''' (millions of unlinked trips)<ref name="Fiscal Year 2021 Operating Budget"/>}}
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In 2020, annual ridership was 223.5 million individual rides. 17.1 million were rides on SEPTA's suburban network. 26.3 million were rides on SEPTA's "regional rail" network. 180.1 million were rides on SEPTA's "city transit" network.<ref name="Fiscal Year 2021 Operating Budget">{{Cite web |date=August 2020 |title=Fiscal Year 2021 Operating Budget |url=https://planning.septa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Operating-Budget-FY2021.pdf |access-date=August 3, 2021}}</ref>

Ridership had decreased 13% from 2014 to 2019 due to many factors. Some explanations mentioned by SEPTA for this decrease are "increased competition, structural changes in ridership patterns, and moderate gas prices." The 24% decrease in ridership from 2019 to 2020 was mostly attributable to the impact of government-implemented lock-downs in response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania|COVID-19 pandemic]] that began in mid-March 2020.<ref name="Fiscal Year 2021 Operating Budget"/>