NYC Taxi Zone Data: All 263 Zones Ranked

Q: Where does this zone data come from?

From TLC's trip record files for yellow taxis, green cabs and high-volume FHVs (Uber and Lyft), September 2025 to August 2026. TLC Help added them up by pickup and drop-off zone. Black car, livery and limo trips that don't go through Uber or Lyft are not included.

Q: What is a typical taxi zone's trip count?

The middle (median) zone had 822,644 pickups in the 12 months. 108 zones had at least 1 million, and 8 zones had fewer than 10,000, mostly parks, islands, Rikers Island and Newark Airport.

Q: In how many zones do yellow taxis make most pickups?

Only four: Newark Airport (a tiny number of pickups), Central Park, Upper East Side North and Upper East Side South. Yellow cabs had under 5% of pickups in 189 of the 259 zones with enough trips to measure.

Q: Why are some cells blank?

Medians and rates need at least 250 trips, and zone counts of 1 to 9 trips are hidden. Near-empty zones such as the harbor islands therefore show dashes.

On this page (9)

The numbers at a glance
All 263 zones in one table
Industry share per zone
Zones on the MTA congestion-zone list
How to read zone IDs
What the data can't tell you
Source, method and data lag
FAQ
Sources

In short: This page puts all 263 TLC taxi zones in one sortable table, using TLC trip records for September 2025 to August 2026 (the latest 12 months published as of October 12, 2026). In that year, yellow taxis, green cabs and Uber/Lyft made 297,985,635 pickups in zones 1–263. App trips were 84.5% of them, yellow taxis 15.3% and green cabs 0.18% (our sums of dataset trips-zone-index). Sort the table by any column, or type a neighborhood in the filter.

New to zone numbers? Read NYC taxi zones explained first.

The numbers at a glance

All 263 zones in one table

Each zone name links to its own page, and the filter accepts a name or a LocationID. Columns: pickups and drop-offs (all industries), yellow share of pickups, and for Uber/Lyft trips starting in the zone the median driver pay per trip (before tips and tolls), pay per engaged hour and median fare.

Every taxi zone: trips, yellow share and app pay (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026)

Sorted by pickups. Filter by name or number. Pay per engaged hour counts only time with a passenger in the car, so it is NOT hourly earnings.

Filter rows263 rows


LaGuardia Airport	6,102,397	5,729,391	19.3%	$38.65	73.81	$54.28
JFK Airport	5,817,376	5,304,804	31.4%	$54.41	76.81	$69.75
Midtown Center	4,742,983	4,004,650	40%	$21.40	69.39	$32.53
Times Sq/Theatre District	4,208,384	3,638,084	31.5%	$23.53	70.47	$33.88
Upper East Side South	4,057,069	3,768,004	50.9%	$17.90	66.96	$25.82
East Village	4,051,067	3,362,971	29.2%	$17.13	63.93	$22.65
East Chelsea	3,701,471	3,635,551	31.6%	$20.36	66.33	$28.64
Union Sq	3,686,517	3,209,114	32.2%	$18.12	65.2	$26.34
Upper East Side North	3,496,056	3,505,417	52.4%	$17.87	66.24	$24.54
West Chelsea/Hudson Yards	3,430,368	3,318,925	24.8%	$18.73	66.62	$27.20
Crown Heights North	3,364,435	3,593,082	2.2%	$13.90	57.31	$16.43
Midtown East	3,318,668	3,114,244	42.4%	$20.84	68.31	$30.66
Midtown South	3,302,855	2,850,334	27.8%	$20.08	67.97	$28.25
Murray Hill	3,282,481	3,275,971	36.3%	$18.05	65.97	$24.48
TriBeCa/Civic Center	3,271,771	2,941,748	19.3%	$19.21	68.47	$27.34
Clinton East	3,261,767	2,763,858	32%	$20.16	66.22	$26.24
West Village	3,097,320	2,583,304	32.2%	$17.02	65.44	$24.23
Midtown North	3,073,674	2,650,977	36.9%	$21.59	69.69	$32.08
Lower East Side	3,019,699	2,397,702	19.6%	$18.23	66.13	$24.44
East New York	3,006,883	3,002,022	1.7%	$11.49	58.46	$13.69
Lincoln Square East	2,897,402	2,644,621	45.8%	$18.02	66.65	$24.71
Bushwick South	2,889,592	2,930,808	2.5%	$15.05	58.3	$17.95
Penn Station/Madison Sq West	2,867,814	2,610,049	49.4%	$20.50	66.73	$28.03
Upper West Side South	2,606,860	2,490,313	45%	$17.28	66.61	$23.10
Greenpoint	2,597,393	2,622,625	2.7%	$17.17	60.14	$20.98
Williamsburg (North Side)	2,594,734	2,410,800	4.1%	$18.36	61.36	$22.63
Astoria	2,563,119	2,554,463	3.7%	$13.23	60.77	$16.12
Gramercy	2,561,141	2,322,326	33.5%	$16.93	63.91	$23.03
Lenox Hill West	2,530,542	2,435,161	40%	$17.76	63.86	$22.97
Park Slope	2,457,598	2,567,769	2%	$15.41	59.44	$18.85

Source: NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · Data as of Oct 12, 2026. Aggregated by TLC Help from TLC trip records, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 (pickup date; TLC publishes trip files about two months after the month ends and may revise them). 'App' = high-volume for-hire services (Uber, Lyft). Taxi records with a negative fare (reversals) are excluded. Averages, medians and rates use 'clean' trips only: 1 minute to 4 hours, more than 0 and under 150 miles, fare above $0 and under $1,000. 'Fare' is the metered fare_amount for taxis and base_passenger_fare for app trips — before tolls, tips, taxes and surcharges — so it is not what the passenger paid in total. App driver_pay is TLC's 'total driver pay (not including tolls or tips and net of commission, surcharges, or taxes)'. Tips are separate. 'Per engaged hour' divides pay by passenger time only (pickup to drop-off). It leaves out time driving to pickups and waiting for requests, so real hourly earnings are lower; it is not the TLC minimum-pay formula. Medians/rates need ≥250 trips (else null). labels are LocationIDs as strings; zones[] has names, boroughs, service_zone (from taxi_zone_lookup.csv), suggested slugs and neighbouring zone ids (shared boundary, from taxi_zones.zip).

Pickups by taxi zone, all industries

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Darker = more pickups. Click a zone for its own page.

Pickups (all sectors)
0 – <251K
251K – <649K
649K – <1M
1M – <2M
2M – 6.1M
No data

Show data table (263 zones)

Zone	Borough	Pickups (all sectors)

Zone boundaries: NYC TLC taxi zones (LocationID 1–263).

How evenly pickups are spread across the busiest zones is on busiest pickup zones. At the low end, 8 zones had fewer than 10,000 pickups in the year: Newark Airport (6,404, because nearly all its TLC trips are drop-offs), Freshkills Park, Jamaica Bay, Great Kills Park, Rikers Island and the three harbor-island IDs 103–105.

Yellow pickups as a % of all pickups in the zone, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Blank = too few trips to measure.

Yellow share of pickups (%)
0% – <0.9%
0.9% – <1.3%
1.3% – <2.3%
2.3% – <18%
18% – 100%
No data

Show data table (259 zones)

Zone	Borough	Yellow share of pickups (%)

Zone boundaries: NYC TLC taxi zones (LocationID 1–263).

The yellow taxi map is small and dark in the middle of Manhattan, and pale everywhere else. Yellow taxis had 25% or more of pickups in only 37 zones and under 5% in 189 of the 259 zones with enough trips to measure. Leaving out Newark Airport (almost no pickups), the highest yellow shares were Central Park (59.9%), Upper East Side North (52.4%), Upper East Side South (50.9%), Penn Station/Madison Sq West (49.4%) and Lincoln Square East (45.8%).

Green cabs are a fraction of one percent almost everywhere. Their biggest share is in East Harlem North, where they made 6.6% of pickups. See where green cabs get hails.

Zones on the MTA congestion-zone list

The MTA publishes 38 taxi zones it treats as inside the Central Business District, so data users can tell which trips start or end there (data.ny.gov yfdc-w5jh). The map outlines them.

Manhattan: share of app pickups charged the congestion relief fee

Shading: % of Uber/Lyft pickups in each zone with a cbd_congestion_fee recorded, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Outlined: the MTA's 38 CBD zone IDs. A trip can be charged when it starts outside the zone and ends inside it.

Highlighted: Alphabet City · 98.7%Battery Park · 99.7%Battery Park City · 96.2%Chinatown · 99.5%Clinton East · 99.6%Clinton West · 97.9%East Chelsea · 99.5%East Village · 99.6%Financial District North · 99.4%Financial District South · 96.5%Flatiron · 99.5%Garment District · 99.6%Gramercy · 99.5%Greenwich Village North · 99.6%Greenwich Village South · 99.5%Hudson Sq · 99.5%Kips Bay · 99.2%Little Italy/NoLiTa · 99.6%Lower East Side · 99.6%Meatpacking/West Village West · 99.1%Midtown Center · 99.6%Midtown East · 99.6%Midtown North · 99.6%Midtown South · 99.6%Murray Hill · 99.5%Penn Station/Madison Sq West · 99.6%Seaport · 99.2%SoHo · 99.6%Stuy Town/Peter Cooper Village · 99.3%Sutton Place/Turtle Bay North · 99.5%Times Sq/Theatre District · 99.7%TriBeCa/Civic Center · 99.2%Two Bridges/Seward Park · 99%UN/Turtle Bay South · 99.1%Union Sq · 99.5%West Chelsea/Hudson Yards · 98.3%West Village · 99.6%World Trade Center · 97.7%

App pickups charged CBD fee (%)
2.8% – <20%
20% – <65%
65% – <99%
99% – <100%
100% – 100%
No data

Show data table (66 zones)

Zone	Borough	App pickups charged CBD fee (%)

Zone boundaries: NYC TLC taxi zones (LocationID 1–263).

Those 38 zones had 28.8% of all pickups but 56.3% of yellow taxi pickups (our sums). For app trips the share was 23.9%. The legal toll line is Manhattan south of and including 60th Street, minus the FDR Drive, West Side Highway/Route 9A and the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel connections (TLC taxi fare page), so zones along 60th Street are only partly inside. Charges per trip are in congestion pricing for TLC drivers.

How to read zone IDs

1–263 are places. 1 is Newark Airport, 132 is JFK, 138 is LaGuardia.
264 = Unknown and 265 = Outside of NYC. They appear in trip files but are not on the map or in this table.
Names repeat for 56/57 (Corona) and 103/104/105 (the harbor islands), so always use the number when matching data.
After zones 1 (Newark Airport) and 2 (Jamaica Bay), the numbers follow the alphabet, not the map. Zone 4 (Alphabet City) is in Manhattan and zone 5 (Arden Heights) is on Staten Island.

Borough-level rankings give more detail on each part of the city: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Staten Island.

What the data can't tell you

Hourly earnings. "Pay per engaged hour" leaves out time driving to pickups and waiting, so real hourly pay is lower. It is not TLC's minimum-pay formula.
Tips. App pay columns exclude tips. Taxi tip data covers card tips only.
Black car, livery and limo trips outside Uber and Lyft are missing.
Exact locations and legality. Zones are areas, not addresses, and they don't follow the legal pickup lines.

Source, method and data lag

TLC publishes trip files "typically with a two-month delay" and may revise them (TLC). TLC Help counted every yellow, green and high-volume FHV trip that started between September 1, 2025 and August 31, 2026, dropping taxi rows with negative fares (reversals). Medians and rates use trips of 1 minute to 4 hours, under 150 miles and with a fare between $0 and $1,000, and need at least 250 trips. Zone names and boroughs come from TLC's lookup table. TLC's own monthly zone counts on Open Data (c5iv-bn4s) give slightly different totals because of cleaning and revisions. For drop-off rankings, see busiest drop-off zones. More on the places hub.

Frequently asked questions

Where does this zone data come from?

From TLC's trip record files for yellow taxis, green cabs and high-volume FHVs (Uber and Lyft), September 2025 to August 2026. TLC Help added them up by pickup and drop-off zone. Black car, livery and limo trips that don't go through Uber or Lyft are not included.

What is a typical taxi zone's trip count?

The middle (median) zone had 822,644 pickups in the 12 months. 108 zones had at least 1 million, and 8 zones had fewer than 10,000, mostly parks, islands, Rikers Island and Newark Airport.

In how many zones do yellow taxis make most pickups?

Only four: Newark Airport (a tiny number of pickups), Central Park, Upper East Side North and Upper East Side South. Yellow cabs had under 5% of pickups in 189 of the 259 zones with enough trips to measure.

Why are some cells blank?

Medians and rates need at least 250 trips, and zone counts of 1 to 9 trips are hidden. Near-empty zones such as the harbor islands therefore show dashes.

Sources

Last reviewed against the official sources on Oct 12, 2026.

NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 nyc.gov
TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
data.ny.gov: MTA Central Business District Taxi Zones (yfdc-w5jh) data.ny.gov
NYC Open Data: Pickups and Drop-offs by Taxi Zone and Industry (c5iv-bn4s) data.cityofnewyork.us

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TLC Help is not a law firm and is not affiliated with the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission or OATH. Explanations on this site are general information, not legal advice. Legal representation is provided by independent attorneys and OATH-registered representatives in our network.

The numbers at a glance

All 263 zones in one table

Industry share per zone

Zones on the MTA congestion-zone list

How to read zone IDs

What the data can't tell you

Source, method and data lag

Frequently asked questions

Sources

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