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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results

Kingston upon Thames remains 20th overall this year, with its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score rising from 3.51 to 3.69 out of 10. It is still one of the stronger Outer London boroughs overall, with particularly good results on safer speeds, protected cycling and active travel participation.

The borough’s 20mph coverage is effectively complete at 98.0%, and its protected cycle track score rose from 7.3% to 7.5%, helped by new tracks on Ewell Road and Kingston Road. This keeps Kingston among the leading Outer London boroughs for protected cycling. Sustainable modeshare also rose from 58.7% to 60.8%, one of only five boroughs to record an increase of two percentage points or more. Walking and cycling participation are both among the strongest in Outer London, and an improved cyclist casualty-rate score also helped lift the borough’s overall result.

However, there are still significant gaps. CPZ coverage remains low at 20.2%, School Street coverage is only 19.4%, Travel for Life participation is weak, and bus priority remains limited at 6.2%. Car ownership is also high, with only 26.7% of households car-free. Kingston’s results show a strong active travel base by Outer London standards, but this now needs broader support from parking controls, School Streets and bus priority.

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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.