# Registered motor vehicles

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

## Key facts

- Registered motor vehicles in the United States was 297.53 million in 2024, according to the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
- California had the highest registered motor vehicles of 51 states in 2024, at 30.94 million, and District of Columbia the lowest, at 302,647. Source: the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 2010 to 2024.
- Figures last updated on 2026-10-18.

- Indicator id: `registered_vehicles`
- Unit: count
- Note: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/registered-motor-vehicles
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/indicators/registered_vehicles

## Latest figures

| Place | Period | count | Source |
|---|---|---:|---|
| United States | 2024 | 297,525,836 | Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Highway Statistics, Table MV-1, State Motor-Vehicle Registrations (all motor vehicles, total), United States and states. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm. Retrieved 2026-10-18. |

## Rankings

- [US states](https://invokely.ai/rankings/registered-motor-vehicles/us-states.md) (51 places)