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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results

Brent remains in 21st place overall this year, but its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score rose from 3.49 to 3.61 out of 10, one of the larger increases in London. The largest contribution to this increase came from a decrease in cycling casualty rates, which represents a real improvement in score. The borough’s strongest results are in outcome indicators: Brent now has the highest sustainable modeshare of any Outer London borough at 68.7%, and also the highest proportion of households without a car, at 51.7%. Car ownership is moving in the right direction, with cars per household falling and the polluting-vehicle score improving from 6.39 to 6.20. The proportion of adults walking regularly has also improved, but remains below 30%, and cycling participation has fallen to 7%.

There are some encouraging signs on school travel too. Brent has 37 School Streets, covering 37.4% of schools, putting it among the stronger Outer London boroughs on this indicator. Its Travel for Life score also improved from 42.3% to 44.4%.

However, other than school streets, Brent’s street-level delivery remains more limited. LTN coverage is unchanged at 12.0%, protected cycle track coverage is still very low at 1.0%, and bus priority is unchanged at 12.1%. CPZ coverage is also unchanged at 35.7%, while 20mph coverage remains static at 61.2%. Brent’s results show that many residents are already travelling sustainably and living with lower car ownership than most Outer London boroughs, but this now needs to be matched by stronger delivery on safer, healthier streets.

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The Healthy Streets Scorecard combines scores for ten indicators to create an overall Healthy Streets score for each borough. See the graph below for 2026 results (includes 2019–2025 results for comparison). For more detail visit the London-wide overview of the 2026 results. You can also:

Scorecard (factored score) chart explained

In the chart above, each borough has been given a factored score. Factor scores are composite variables which provide information about a borough’s placement on a scale. Factor scores are given by F=XB, where X is the indicator normalised score for a borough and B is the factor score coefficient (or weight). Each indicator is weighted as 1, or 0.5 if there are two parts to one indicator, for example Modeshare has a weighting of 1, Active travel – walking has a weighting of 0.5 and Active travel – cycling has a weighting of 0.5. The borough’s total factored score is the sum of all indicator factored scores which is then factored to 10 (multiplied by the number of indicators/10) to give a value on the scale between zero and 10. We can then compare boroughs against each other on the scale.