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2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results
Southwark remains 5th overall this year, although its final Healthy Streets Scorecard score fell from 6.35 to 6.09 out of 10. It is still one of London’s better performing boroughs, but the fall shows that strong baseline conditions need to be maintained alongside continued action on road danger and cycling infrastructure.
The borough has complete 20mph coverage, strong LTN coverage at 41.6%, and good bus priority at 37.6%. Sustainable modeshare rose to 82.1%, more than 40% of adults walk regularly, and cycling participation increased to 24.4%, one of the highest figures in London. Southwark also has relatively low car ownership, with 62.6% of households being car-free.
The main reason for the lower overall score is worsening casualty-rate indicators, especially for cycling, where the rate rose from 2.00 to 2.45; the three-year average of serious and fatal road casualties rose from 114 in last year’s scorecard to 135 this year. Protected cycle track coverage also fell from 6.1% to 5.4%, reflecting a mix of mapping corrections and removed temporary protection. School Street coverage rose slightly to 29.1%, but remains modest for a high-performing Inner London borough and, at 72.1%, CPZ coverage is still behind the strongest Inner London performers. Southwark remains strong overall, but the next step is clearer progress on safer cycling, School Streets and controlled parking.
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.