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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results
Ealing fell from 15th to 17th place this year, with its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score dropping from 4.63 to 4.50 out of 10. The borough did make clear progress around schools, but the overall fall points to a more mixed picture, with limited movement on cycling infrastructure and worsening cyclist casualty rates, and no progress on LTNs.
Ealing delivered ten new School Streets, with one lost when a school closed, taking its total to 47 and increasing coverage from 35.5% to 43.9%. This puts Ealing among the leading Outer London boroughs on School Streets. Its Travel for Life score also rose strongly, from 29.9% to 38.0%. There was only minimal progress on protected cycle tracks, including sections on Uxbridge Road and elsewhere, and Ealing’s protected cycling total remains well behind Outer London leaders such as Waltham Forest and Hounslow. The borough remains strong on 20mph roads, with complete coverage, and its CPZ coverage is high by Outer London standards.
The main caveat is that some outcome indicators moved in the wrong direction. Ealing suffered the second-largest increase in cyclist casualty rates in London this year, which helps explain its drop in score and rank. Sustainable modeshare fell from 67.0% to 65.2%, although it remains above the Outer London average, and the proportion of car-free households also fell. Regular walking is broadly steady, while cycling participation has improved to 13.9%. Ealing’s results show real delivery on School Streets, but with slow progress on protected cycle schemes, this has not yet translated into a stronger overall Scorecard position.
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.