How many trucks crossed at each US land port of entry?

Which border is busier?

The Mexican and Canadian borders are counted separately in the same federal file. Switch the transport mode to see how the two sides compare across trucks, trains, personal vehicles, buses and pedestrians.

The fifteen busiest truck crossings

Ranked by total truck crossings over the last 12 months. Click any row to load that crossing into the charts above.

Where the numbers come from

Nothing on this page is estimated, modelled or bought. The figures are the counts the United States takes at its own border stations and publishes every month through the Bureau of Transportation Statistics Border Crossing/Entry Data programme. This page reads the same public file and adds up nothing but what is in it.

Records used

276,749 monthly port records, covering 115 land ports of entry on the US–Mexico and US–Canada borders.

Period covered

January 1996 to August 2026, 368 consecutive months.

What a number means

The count of trucks that entered the United States through that crossing in that calendar month. It is an arrival count, not a count of distinct vehicles or of cargo value.

Missing months

Some crossings show no trucks in a given month, either because none crossed or because the port did not report. Those months are left blank in the charts rather than filled with zero.

Licence

U.S. federal government work — public domain. Reuse it freely, including commercially. We ask only that you credit the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Archived copy

Our cleaned, aggregated version is deposited with a permanent identifier: 10.5281/zenodo.23331342, alongside the written analysis.

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What the file says, in one paragraph

Land freight did not stay where it started. The Mexican border overtook the Canadian border in 2017 and has not given the lead back; by 2025 it carried 59.0% of US land truck crossings. Traffic is also highly concentrated: Laredo alone handles 23.2% of all US land truck crossings, and the five busiest crossings together account for 54%. A dispatcher pricing a lane, or a forwarder deciding where to put capacity, is really asking about a handful of crossings, not about "the border" in general.