Data / Registered motor vehicles

Registered motor vehicles

All motor vehicles registered during the year: automobiles, buses, trucks and motorcycles.

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.
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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. Trailers are not motor vehicles and are not counted.

Key facts

Figures last updated on 2026-10-18.

Rankings

US states by registered motor vehicles, 2024

Top 15. Source: Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.

California: 30,940,652 countCalifornia30,940,652Texas: 23,606,401 countTexas23,606,401New York: 20,991,098 countNew York20,991,098Florida: 19,696,080 countFlorida19,696,080Ohio: 11,366,695 countOhio11,366,695Pennsylvania: 10,612,158 countPennsylvania10,612,158Illinois: 10,546,027 countIllinois10,546,027Michigan: 9,606,801 countMichigan9,606,801Georgia: 9,309,408 countGeorgia9,309,408North Carolina: 8,862,420 countNorth Carolina8,862,420Virginia: 7,985,530 countVirginia7,985,530Washington: 7,519,050 countWashington7,519,050Tennessee: 7,175,641 countTennessee7,175,641Arizona: 6,692,631 countArizona6,692,631New Jersey: 6,256,097 countNew Jersey6,256,097California: 30,940,652 countCalifornia30,940,652Texas: 23,606,401 countTexas23,606,401New York: 20,991,098 countNew York20,991,098Florida: 19,696,080 countFlorida19,696,080Ohio: 11,366,695 countOhio11,366,695Pennsylvania: 10,612,158 countPennsylvania10,612,158Illinois: 10,546,027 countIllinois10,546,027Michigan: 9,606,801 countMichigan9,606,801Georgia: 9,309,408 countGeorgia9,309,408North Carolina: 8,862,420 countNorth Carolina8,862,420Virginia: 7,985,530 countVirginia7,985,530Washington: 7,519,050 countWashington7,519,050Tennessee: 7,175,641 countTennessee7,175,641Arizona: 6,692,631 countArizona6,692,631New Jersey: 6,256,097 countNew Jersey6,256,097
count. Source: FHWA, Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (all motor vehicles, total), United States and states. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

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