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Registered automobiles in United States

Registered automobiles in the United States was 97.41 million in 2024, according to the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. That is up 0.5% from 2023.

2024, count97,413,321
Change on 2023+0.5%
Series high130,892,2402010
Series low96,901,5632023

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Registered automobiles in United States, 2010 to 2024

90M100M110M120M130M140M201020132016201920242010: 130,892,240 count2011: 125,656,528 count2012: 111,289,906 count2013: 113,676,345 count2014: 113,898,845 count2015: 112,864,228 count2016: 112,961,266 count2017: 111,177,029 count2018: 111,242,132 count2019: 108,547,710 count2020: 105,135,300 count2021: 102,724,349 count2022: 99,666,377 count2023: 96,901,563 count2024: 97,413,321 count90M100M110M120M130M140M20102015202020242010: 130,892,240 count2011: 125,656,528 count2012: 111,289,906 count2013: 113,676,345 count2014: 113,898,845 count2015: 112,864,228 count2016: 112,961,266 count2017: 111,177,029 count2018: 111,242,132 count2019: 108,547,710 count2020: 105,135,300 count2021: 102,724,349 count2022: 99,666,377 count2023: 96,901,563 count2024: 97,413,321 count
count. Source: FHWA, Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (automobiles, total), United States and states. Retrieved 2026-10-18, published 2026-02-23.
All 15 values
Periodcount
202497,413,321
202396,901,563
202299,666,377
2021102,724,349
2020105,135,300
2019108,547,710
2018111,242,132
2017111,177,029
2016112,961,266
2015112,864,228
2014113,898,845
2013113,676,345
2012111,289,906
2011125,656,528
2010130,892,240

Rankings

Definition

Automobiles registered during the year, taxicabs included.

More on how it is measured
  • FHWA Highway Statistics table MV-1 counts the vehicles registered in each state during the year, from the records of the state motor vehicle agencies: private, commercial and publicly owned vehicles, but not those of the armed forces.
  • A vehicle is counted in the state that registered it.

From the 2012 table FHWA allocates light-duty vehicles between automobiles and trucks with its own method, and automobiles fall from 125.7 million in 2011 to 111.3 million in 2012 while trucks rise from 118.5 million to 133.1 million, so the split is not comparable across those years. The all motor vehicles total is. Many sport utility vehicles, pickups and vans count as trucks, not automobiles. States keep their registers differently: some report registration transactions during the year or vehicles on multi-year registrations instead of active registrations, and a change in what a state reports can move its count sharply from one year to the next (Delaware in 2021, New York in 2024). Values for states FHWA estimated, or for which it repeated the previous year, are marked estimated. FHWA publishes some counts with fractions; they are rounded to whole vehicles.

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Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Highway Statistics, Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (automobiles, total), United States and states. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

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Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. (2026). Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (automobiles, total), United States and states (Registered automobiles, United States, 2010 to 2024) [Data set]. Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm

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Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (automobiles, total), United States and states, Registered automobiles, United States, 2010 to 2024. Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 23 Feb. 2026, https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/registered-automobiles/united-states. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. 2026. Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (automobiles, total), United States and states. Registered automobiles, United States, 2010 to 2024. Dataset. Accessed October 18, 2026. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/registered-automobiles/united-states.

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Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation (2026) Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (automobiles, total), United States and states, Registered automobiles, United States, 2010 to 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/registered-automobiles/united-states (Accessed: 18 October 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{federal_registered_automobiles_united_states_2024,
  author = {{Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation}},
  title = {{Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (automobiles, total), United States and states: Registered automobiles, United States, 2010 to 2024}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm},
  urldate = {2026-10-18},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/registered-automobiles/united-states. Publisher attribution: Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Highway Statistics, Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (automobiles, total), United States and states. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm. Retrieved 2026-10-18.},
}
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What is the registered automobiles in United States?

Registered automobiles in the United States was 97.41 million in 2024, according to the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. That is up 0.5% from 2023.

Where does this figure come from?

Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (automobiles, total), United States and states. Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-18.

What was the highest registered automobiles in United States?

130.89 million in 2010, the highest value since 2010 in this series.

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