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US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

US Border Crossing Entry Data (Ports of Entry)

OpenL3Data productHuman mobilityLogisticsTrade

Monthly counts of inbound crossings at each US land port of entry on the Canadian and Mexican borders: trucks, loaded and empty containers, trains, buses, personal vehicles and their passengers, and pedestrians. People and commerce by port, compiled from US Customs and Border Protection records.

Administrative and port records
Category
Human mobility
Update cadence
30 d
Latency
0.2 yr
Archive
1996 – present
Instruments
Statistical reporting
Sources
Administrative and port records
Formats
CSV, JSON
Pricing
Free
Licence
U.S. Government Public Domain
IRI
terrafabric.world/id/collection/bts-border-crossing-entry

Access

Open data, retrieved directly from the source under its licence.

Access endpoints

  • https
    https://data.bts.gov/Research-and-Statistics/Border-Crossing-Entry-Data/keg4-3bc2
    BTS open data: table, API and downloads

Licence

U.S. Government Public Domain

No restrictions on use; citation requested.

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