New data from the New York State Comptroller confirms what many suspected: essential workers in neighborhoods with lower median incomes have been riding the subway throughout the pandemic at far greater levels than people in wealthier neighborhoods.

While the subways hit a recent milestone of two million riders a day, average ridership is just 30 percent of pre-pandemic levels. But new data from State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office finds some immigrant and low income neighborhoods are seeing a dramatic return to the subways.

The busiest stop last month was 138th Street-Grand Concourse in the Bronx where ridership is back to 68 percent of what it was before the pandemic. This is an area where 26 percent of the population works in health care or social services.