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Despite all its flaws—or more pointedly, how “fucked” it is—one thing is for sure: a lot of people ride the Metro. Actually, that’s not just limited to Metro. People in the D.C. area use all forms of public transit a lot. More so than most other cities in the country, in fact.

According to new data gathered and analyzed by FiveThirtyEight, D.C.’s public transit system is the third most-used public transit system in the country, trailing behind the San Francisco-Oakland transit system and the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut transit system.

To yield this conclusion, FiveThirtyEight analyzed monthly ridership data of transit systems throughout the country from the National Transit Database and compared them to population estimates in each of the cities. According to FiveThirtyEight, “the U.S. has 415 urbanized areas with populations over 65,000 — large enough to get a one-year ACS estimate — and 70 percent (290) of them reported data to the NTD in every month of 2013.” The gaps were mostly in small cities, so they were able gather the correct data for all the major metropolitan areas in the U.S.

The D.C. area just barely beat Athens, Georgia, with 99.6 trips per resident in 2013. San Francisco leads over D.C. with 131.5 trips per resident, while New York leads the charge—significantly—with 229.8 trips per resident.

But D.C. and New York aren’t alone—the data also shows that there’s a clear trend that more people in Northeast cities, as well as some Western regions, use public transit systems than anywhere else. The data shows that both the South and the Midwest have some of the least-used public transit systems in the U.S.

Via FiveThirtyEight.