Who is on Chicago’s rideshare rosters? The companies must report their eligible drivers to the city every month, and the city publishes the file: a driver-month register of 12,014,008 rows, February 2015 through June 2026 — one row per driver reported eligible in one month, never a count of people across months. In June 2026 the roster held 86,195 driver records. That is 6.5 for every one of the city’s 13,274 active chauffeur licenses — and it is little more than half the roster’s own peak, 154,619 in March 2017. Inside the June rows: 27,799 — 32.3 percent — recorded zero trips; 1,141 recorded 500 or more; 29.5 percent were reported as driving for more than one company; 57.9 percent started within the previous twelve months; only 40.9 percent list a Chicago address; and every single row carries the same employment classification: Independent Contractor.
Transportation Network Providers – Drivers (j6wf-834c), 12,014,008 driver-month rows, months 2015-02 – 2026-06 · retrieved August 26, 2026 · the file has no name column; city, state and ZIP were used only in aggregates · the portal carries a July 29, 2025 data-correction note, linked in the method notesThe roster, June by June
A driver-month file swells and shrinks with the months, so the comparable series compares like months. Every June on the register:
| June of… | Driver records reported | Trips those records carry |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41,209 | 2,189,083 |
| 2016 | 115,377 | 4,391,294 |
| 2017 | 113,639 | 7,109,273 |
| 2018 | 129,157 | 9,521,242 |
| 2019 | 106,346 | 9,509,110 |
| 2020 | 75,316 | 2,671,198 |
| 2021 | 51,614 | 4,108,831 |
| 2022 | 64,064 | 5,732,422 |
| 2023 | 75,850 | 6,947,618 |
| 2024 | 85,335 | 7,564,601 |
| 2025 | 90,611 | 7,647,101 |
| 2026 | 86,195 | 7,211,950 |
The arc needs no adjectives: 41,209 records in the file’s first June; 129,157 in June 2018, the biggest June on the register; 51,614 in June 2021; 86,195 in June 2026 — 55.7 percent of the March 2017 peak. The register records who was eligible, not why the numbers moved, and this page adds no cause. One reading it does support: today’s roster is not the 2017 roster grown back — 57.9 percent of June 2026’s records started within the previous twelve months, while 1,726 records carry a start month from 2015 or earlier.
A third of the roster recorded zero trips
The portal defines inclusion precisely: a driver appears in a monthly report if they were eligible for trips in Chicago that month. Eligible is not driving. Banding June 2026’s records by their reported trips:
| Trips reported, June 2026 | Driver records |
|---|---|
| 0 | 27,799 |
| 1–49 | 22,323 |
| 50–199 | 23,094 |
| 200–499 | 11,799 |
| 500 or more | 1,141 |
| (no trip figure) | 39 |
The largest single band is zero: 32.3 percent of the roster recorded no trips at all, while the 1,141 records at 500 or more — 1.3 percent of the roster — are the file’s highest-trip band. Our derivations, labeled as ours: the month’s 7,211,950 reported trips average 83.7 per record across the whole roster, but 123.6 across the 58,357 records that recorded at least one trip. (Our rideshare receipt counted 6,486,420 June 2026 trips — a different universe, trips with recorded miles and a Chicago pickup community area, and the two figures are not expected to match; neither is corrected to the other.) The reported ages: an average of 43.1, the youngest 21 — and the oldest reported age in the June file is 124, a value we print as filed and flag as a value the file reports, not a fact this page can verify.
More than one company, twelve months, fifty-one state codes
Three more columns, counted as printed. Multiple TNPs: 25,391 June records — 29.5 percent — are flagged as driving for more than one company. Employment classification: all 86,195 records, without exception, read Independent Contractor. And residence, in aggregate only: 35,280 records — 40.9 percent — list Chicago, with Des Plaines (1,575), Skokie (1,465), Aurora (1,283), Schaumburg (1,217) and Cicero (992) leading the rest; 4,217 rows carry no city at all. The records list addresses under 51 distinct state codes, and 90.5 percent list Illinois. Beside it, from the chauffeur register we read this week (also retrieved August 26): 50.1 percent of active chauffeur-license records list a Chicago address. Of the two files, the rideshare roster carries the smaller Chicago share.
- Source: the city’s Transportation Network Providers – Drivers file (j6wf-834c): 12,014,008 rows, one per driver per month reported, February 2015 through June 2026; retrieved August 26, 2026. All figures were computed on the city’s portal; no row-level file was downloaded. The portal posts a July 29, 2025 data-correction note for this file.
- Grain: a row is a driver reported eligible in one month. Rows are never summed across months into a count of people, and monthly comparisons use like months (June against June). Per the portal, inclusion in a month means the driver was eligible for trips in Chicago that month — not that they drove.
- Privacy: the file contains no name column. City, state and ZIP were used only in aggregate counts; ages are reported figures from the file, printed as filed.
- Cross-file reads: the chauffeur-register figures come from our Public Chauffeurs piece (dataset 97wa-y6ff, retrieved August 26, 2026) and the June trip count from our rideshare receipt (dataset 6dvr-xwnh; its filter is stated where the figure appears); files are set side by side, dated, and never combined beyond the labeled drivers-per-license ratio.
- What this page does not say: why the roster fell from its 2017 peak, why it has not returned there, or what any driver earned — none of that is in this file.
Computed by KCM Desk from the city’s TNP driver reports, retrieved August 26, 2026. If you spot an error, corrections come first.
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