TLC Factbook and Reports: Where to Find Official Numbers

In short: TLC publishes its numbers in a handful of places, each built for a different question. The TLC Factbook is now a live dashboard, updated monthly, on TLC's Data and Research page. The Annual Report gives year-end license counts and every rule TLC adopted that year. The FHV License Review, every February, explains the FHV license cap and app driver earnings. OFS reports cover medallions, TIF reports cover the accessible-taxi fund, and the trip record data and Open Data lists give raw numbers. Anything not published can be requested under FOIL. This guide maps each one, so you can find the official figure instead of a rumor.

This page explains where to look. Numbers quoted here are dated; always check the newest edition.

The main TLC data products

The Factbook

TLC's Data and Research page says the Factbook, "once a static report released by the agency every two years, is now a living, interactive, ever-expanding data dashboard updated with the latest data every month." The older PDF Factbooks (2014–2020) are listed on the Reports page. Because the dashboard is interactive, numbers in it can change as data is revised. When you quote it, write down the date you looked.

The Annual Report

The 2025 Annual Report (January 2026) is the best single source for "how many." At December 31, 2025 it counts 299,117 active licenses in total, including 180,169 driver licenses, 118,082 vehicle licenses, 791 bases and 75 other businesses (brokers, agents, meter shops, technology providers, e-hail apps and one interior advertising provider). Its appendix has the top consumer complaints and summons tables for the year. Annual reports go back to 2002.

The FHV License Review

Each review explains whether TLC will issue new FHV licenses. The February 2026 review found licensed FHVs in good standing fell from 105,487 to 103,618 and concluded that more licenses "would not be beneficial … at this time," while people "may continue to apply for a WAV-restricted license." It also reports that app drivers' median gross weekly earnings ranged from roughly $1,100 to $1,400 between February 2025 and January 2026. Our FHV license cap statistics chart these reviews.

OFS and TIF reports

The Office of Financial Stability reports cover the medallion market. The TIF Report 2025 tracks the $1 Taxi Improvement Surcharge: $46,820,472.64 collected in 2025 (TIF plus the green cab fund), and how the money was paid out to owners and drivers of accessible taxis.

Monthly reports and raw data

TLC's Aggregated Reports page says its reports "will be updated at the end of each month to include data from the prior month." The Monthly Data Reports file covers yellow, green and every FHV class, with average daily trips, fares collected, active vehicles and drivers, and credit card use. The FHV Base Aggregate Report gives monthly trips and vehicles for each base, tabulated from the trip records bases submit; TLC notes it publishes that data "as submitted by bases" and cannot guarantee its accuracy. The Enforcement and Complaint Statistics file shows "the count of the 10 highest violations of the month, divided by borough precinct."

The Trip Record Data page holds the biggest files: every yellow and green taxi trip (pickup and drop-off times and zones, distance, itemized fare, rate type, payment type) and every for-hire trip, with high-volume (Uber, Lyft) trips in a separate, more detailed file since 2019. From 2025 the files include a column for the congestion pricing charge. Two cautions from TLC itself: the taxi data comes from technology providers, and TLC "makes no representations as to the accuracy" of it; FHV data comes from bases' own submissions. Files are posted monthly, "typically with a two-month delay."

Finally, NYC Open Data carries TLC's active license lists (drivers, vehicles, bases), updated daily. They tell you whether a license is active today, not whether that person or car is working.

Which report answers your question?

Where drivers see this data

These reports aren't only for researchers. They shape the rules you drive under:

• The FHV License Review decides whether new plates open up, which affects how much rented TLC-plated cars cost.
• The Driver Expense Report (2024) and its 2025 Supplement study what it costs to drive for a living; the pay rules themselves are explained in FHV driver minimum pay.
• The Annual Report lists every rule TLC adopted that year, with effective dates.
• Enforcement statistics show which rules are most often charged; see TLC enforcement by NYPD precinct and TLC summons statistics.

How to request data TLC hasn't published

TLC's Request Data page explains FOIL (New York's Freedom of Information Law):

You can't use FOIL to get other people's personal information. Your own records (license history, summonses) are better handled through TLC UP, LARS or TLC's contact emails; see official websites for NYC drivers.

How to cite a TLC number

Keep the type of number straight too. A summons is an allegation, not a finding. Licenses in force are not the same as drivers working: TLC counts about 180,000 active driver licenses, but its monthly reports show far fewer drivers with trips in any one industry. And one license can be used in several industries, so industry counts overlap.

Mistakes to avoid

• Quoting an old Factbook PDF as current. The last printed edition is 2020.
• Adding industry driver counts together. TLC warns that one license covers taxi, green cab, black car, livery and limousine work.
• Treating trip-data averages as pay rates. Trip records show what happened; the legal minimum is on TLC's pay rates page.

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