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U.S. motorcycle registration estimates in 2024, by state (in units)

State	Registrations in units
New York**	794,820
California	751,138
Florida	634,364
Montana	447,943
Ohio	422,404
Pennsylvania	342,114
Texas	326,186
Arizona	292,014
Wisconsin*	279,308
Illinois	265,273
Utah	256,780
Michigan*	249,465
Minnesota*	226,544
Georgia	221,294
Tennessee	204,353
Indiana	203,871
Washington*	200,298
Iowa	193,164
Virginia	190,615
North Carolina	189,734
Colorado	176,484
South Dakota	147,254
New Jersey*	146,003
Oregon	143,067
Massachusetts	141,710
Oklahoma	139,387
Missouri*	133,801
Alabama	129,014
South Carolina	125,526
Kentucky	115,887
Louisiana	105,504
Arkansas	100,497
Maryland	99,106
Kansas	94,496
Nevada	87,702
New Hampshire	86,208
Connecticut	81,996
Idaho	74,915
New Mexico	56,497
Nebraska	50,753
Maine	47,685
West Virginia*	47,662
North Dakota	44,166
Vermont	31,427
Mississippi	30,421
Wyoming	28,613
Alaska	25,540
Rhode Island	25,375
Delaware	24,694
Hawaii	24,555
District of Columbia	3,622

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January 2026

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2024

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*The state did not report one or more publicly-owned registered vehicle types.

** Transitioned from using estimated data for 2022 and 2023 to actual State-reported registration data

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The number of publicly owned, private, and commercial motorcycles registered in the U.S. states and the District of Columbia reached a total of some 9.3 million units in 2024. In that same year, there were 790,000 motorcycles registered in New York.

U.S. motorcycle registrations by state

In 2024, California and New York reported the highest amount of registered private and commercial motorcycles in the country. While California is the U.S. state with the second-highest number of motorcycles, it is the most populous state in the United States overall, representing close to 12 percent of the country’s total population. At the bottom of the ranking are Delaware, Hawaii, and the District of Colombia with fewer than 25,000 registrations, as well as less populous states, including Rhode Island and Alaska.

Dangerous travel

Riding a motorcycle is one of the most dangerous ways to travel in the U.S. with more than 200 fatalities per billion passenger miles as of 2019. Motorcycle crashes in the United States had decreased slightly in recent years, after peaking in 2016, but saw a strong rise in 2020.