Number of registered U.S. motorcycles by state 2021 | Statista (2024)

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 9.89 million units in 2021. In that same year, there were some 637,500 motorcycles registered in Florida.

U.S. motorcycle registrations by state

In 2021, New York and California reported the highest amount of registered private and commercial motorcycles in the country. Not only is California one of the U.S. states with the highest number of motorcycles, but it is also the most populous state in the U.S. overall, representing close to 12 percent of the country’s total population. At the bottom of the ranking are Rhode Island, Delaware, and the District of Colombia with fewer than 25,000 registrations, as well as less populous states, including Wyoming 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 have decreased slightly in recent years, after peaking in 2016.