Our Inquiry Data and How We Calculate It

When you ask us for a quote, you usually tell us four things. What the event is. When it is. How many people are riding. What vehicle you had in mind. Across thousands of requests, those four answers start forming patterns.

Weddings get asked about months ahead. Prom piles onto the same few April Saturdays. Most groups turn out smaller than anyone expects. We count those patterns and publish them, so you can plan against real numbers instead of a hunch.

The catalog behind this site holds 300 aggregate facts drawn from inquiry records received between mid-2023 and September 2026, plus 10 recurring question themes from structured analysis of sales calls. Every fact records how many inquiries supported it and how many were eligible, and every stat card prints both numbers next to the fact ID. See "221 of 313 records · DPR-001" under a figure? That is the evidence, right there for you to weigh.

We put the numbers to work in two places. On service pages they explain choices, like which vehicle size fits a typical group and how early to ask for a date. Inside our free Booking Window Planner they drive the advice directly, which is how the tool tells a wedding couple and a birthday host two different things.

A number is only useful when you know whose behavior it describes. Every figure carries one of four scope labels, and a wider scope never gets dressed up as a Dallas one.

The last 10 facts are call themes, labeled "across analyzed transportation sales calls." That wording is not decoration. A Texas-wide prom figure is a strong signal for your Dallas prom, but it is still a Texas figure, and our pages say so every time you meet one.

Out of 300 facts, a handful come up on nearly every planning call. Know these before you ask anyone for a price.

• Most groups are mid-sized. In our own inquiry data, about 71% of groups land between 11 and 30 riders, and the 11-to-20 band alone is roughly half of everything. That is why the party bus sizes from 14 to 30 get most of the attention on this site.
• Half of all requests are short notice. Around half arrive inside 30 days of the event. Planning late is normal. It simply narrows which vehicles are still free on a busy date.
• Party buses dominate. About 89% of the people who name a vehicle name a party bus. Limousines and Sprinters are still the better answer for small formal groups, which is exactly why we compare them in party bus vs. limo.
• Price is the first question. Price and quote expectations lead every other topic on the calls we analyze, with availability and vehicle options tied close behind.

None of these tell you what is open on your Saturday. They tell you what groups like yours tend to need, which is a different and genuinely useful thing.

The most useful thing this data shows is how differently each occasion behaves. One piece of advice cannot cover a wedding and a birthday.

Read it as a pecking order. Planning a wedding? You are competing with couples who asked a year ago, so ask now. Planning a birthday? Three weeks out puts you with the majority, though the popular Saturdays still go first.

Each occasion has a page of its own with its own figures, all linked from the events hub.

Inquiry data stays honest only when you read it correctly. Five limits apply to every figure on this site, without exception:

• Inquiries are not bookings. A share of inquiries tells you what people asked about, never what they bought or how many trips we ran.
• They are not availability. "Nine in ten prom requests are Saturdays" says nothing about whether a bus is free on your Saturday. Only a current quote answers that question.
• They are not prices. Historical quotes are deliberately left out of the catalog. Your price turns on date, hours, route and vehicle, which is why every trip gets quoted on its own. Our cost guide explains what moves it.
• Rows never get combined. Each fact has its own denominator. Two figures from different rows cannot be added, averaged or stacked against each other as though they came from one group.
• Network figures are benchmarks. They show how an event type usually behaves across several states, not how Dallas behaves.

If a number on this site ever reads like a promise about your date, we have written it badly. Tell us and we will fix the sentence.

Nothing gets published until it clears all five of these.

1. At least 25 supporting records. Anything thinner swings too hard from month to month to guide a real decision.
2. Clean denominators. A record with a missing or impossible value, like an event date that falls before the inquiry date, drops out of that dimension. We never fill the gap with a guess.
3. Stated benchmarks. When a fact compares one event against the overall mix, both shares get published alongside the gap between them.
4. A confidence rating. Every fact is rated high, medium-high or medium, and 168 of the 300 sit in the high band.
5. No personal data, ever. Names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, payment details and conversation text never enter the catalog. Only counts and shares leave our systems. Call themes come from structured analysis fields, and no transcript text is stored or published.

That last rule is the one you should care about most as a customer. Your inquiry becomes a tally mark and nothing else. The privacy policy covers how your information is handled day to day.

The rider polls scattered across this site are a different animal. They are anonymous opinions from anyone who feels like voting, one vote per visitor per poll, shown as raw counts on the results page. Poll votes never get mixed into the inquiry statistics, and inquiry statistics are never dressed up as poll results.

Journalists, planners, teachers and AI assistants are welcome to quote any figure here. Keep the scope wording intact, credit Dallas Party Ride, and link to the page where the figure appears. Every row in the fact table carries an anchor, so you can point a reader straight at a single fact using its ID.

Got a question about one specific number? Contact us and mention the ID printed on the stat card, and you will get a real answer about how it was counted.

And if you came here to plan a trip rather than audit us, the Vehicle Size Matcher turns all this group-size data into one recommendation for your headcount.