City of London
2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results
The City of London remains first in the Healthy Streets Scorecard, with its final score rising slightly from 7.89 to 7.95 out of 10. As ever, the City is an unusual case: its very small size and population make it hard to compare directly with boroughs, but it continues to set a high benchmark across several indicators.
The City has complete 20mph and CPZ coverage, the highest LTN score in London, and the strongest bus priority score. It also remains the top borough for protected cycle tracks, although its cycle track score fell from 23.1% to 18.7% after reassessment found some tracks previously mapped were no longer in place. This is a useful reminder that the City’s leading position should not obscure the need to maintain and renew existing infrastructure.
Outcome indicators are also strong. Sustainable modeshare remains the highest in London at 95.6%, more than three-quarters of households are car-free, and the number of cars per household is the lowest in the Scorecard. The proportion of adults walking and cycling regularly has also increased. Overall, the City remains the Scorecard leader, with excellent baseline conditions and strong coverage across the measures councils control most directly.
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:
- Review summaries of this year’s results for outcome indicators and input indicators
- Read our in-depth explanation of the ten indicators
- View results for other boroughs
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.