Hackney
2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results
Hackney remains one of London’s leading Healthy Streets boroughs, holding 3rd place overall despite its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score slipping slightly from 7.51 to 7.46 out of 10. The borough’s strong baseline means small falls in some indicators should be read alongside continued high performance across the Scorecard.
Bus priority increased from 51.3% to 54.1%, with new bus lanes and bus gates on Amhurst Road and Mare Street, and Hackney remains the strongest inner borough in London on this indicator. LTN coverage rose from 69.4% to 72.2%, helped by the new bus gate on Amhurst Road in Hackney Central and the identification of some historic low-traffic areas. The borough has also maintained complete coverage for both 20mph roads and CPZs.
Outcome indicators remain strong too. Sustainable modeshare is still above 85%, more than a quarter of adults cycle regularly, and more than 70% of households are car-free. There are still areas to watch: protected cycle track coverage remains modest for a leading Inner London borough, and School Street numbers fell because of school closures, although coverage remains high at 47.5%. Overall, Hackney remains a top-tier borough, with continued progress on LTNs and bus priority, but still room to strengthen protected cycling infrastructure and school travel. Hackney needs to deliver faster relative to other leading boroughs to avoid a further drop in its overall score.
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.