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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results
Islington remains second overall in the Healthy Streets Scorecard, with its final score rising from 7.54 to 7.61 out of 10. This reflects continued strength across both the measures councils control most directly and the longer-term outcomes we want to see.
The borough added the Mildmay Liveable Neighbourhood, increasing LTN coverage from 47.2% to 48.8%, and added new protected cycle tracks on Boleyn Road, Newington Green and elsewhere, raising its cycle track score to 5.7%. School Street coverage stands at exactly 50.0%, the third-highest proportion in London, while Travel for Life participation is the strongest in Inner London at 62.0%. Islington also maintains complete 20mph coverage and effectively complete CPZ coverage, and remains one of London’s leading boroughs for bus priority.
Outcome indicators are also very strong. Sustainable modeshare rose to 87.6%, cycling participation increased sharply to 26.6%, and more than 40% of adults walk regularly. More than 70% of households are car-free and car ownership remains very low. Islington’s results show a borough that already performs at a high level, but is still finding room to add traffic reduction, protected cycling and school travel measures.
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.