Nearly five million people used Leicester railway station in 2011/12.
The figure - 4,880,616 - is based on estimates of the number of people entering the London Road station to get on a train, and leaving the station after getting off a train.
The number is slightly down on 2010/11, when 4,953,636 people used the station, which is the busiest in Leicestershire.
The data, released by the Office of Rail Regulation, shows Loughborough station was the second most used in the county in 2011/12, with 1,249,452 entries and exits. That figure is also slightly down on 2010/11, when 1,314,460 people used the station.
Leicester and Loughborough were followed by:
Market Harborough, with 746,040 exits and entries in 2011/12, compared to 719,798 in 2010/11;
Narborough, with 363,174 in 2011/12, compared to 345,360 in 2010/22;
Hinckley, with 280,208 in 2011/12, compared to 274,234 in 2010/11;
Melton, with 233,780 in 2011/12, compared to 239,066 in 2010/11;
Syston, with 187,192 in 2011/12, compared to 182,532 in 2010/11;
Sileby, with 107,524 in 2011/12, compared to 103,656 in 2010/11;
Barrow-upon-Soar, with 75,342 in 2011/12, compared to 71,362 in 2010/11;
South Wigston, with 58,630 in 2011/12, compared to 53,946 in 2010/11;
and Bottesford, with 57,486 in 2011/12, compared to 52,378 in 2010/11.
