Registered motorcycles
Motorcycles registered during the year.
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.
Many states keep no record of publicly owned motorcycles, so those may be missing. 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.
Key facts
- Registered motorcycles in the United States was 9.26 million in 2024, according to the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
- New York had the highest registered motorcycles of 51 states in 2024, at 794,820, and District of Columbia the lowest, at 3,622. Source: the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 2010 to 2024.
Rankings
US states by registered motorcycles, 2024
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Idaho
- Hawaii
- Indiana
- Iowa
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest registered motorcycles? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"registered_motorcycles","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=registered_motorcycles&level=region&within=United%20States