2025 Scorecard results overview
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Rising star Newham leaps five places in 2025 and receives special Most Improved Borough award
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.
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Summary of borough progress
This year saw the introduction of 98 new traffic-free school streets across London. Five boroughs increased coverage of 20mph speed limits and six increased streets with controlled parking. There was also more limited progress on LTNs, bus lanes and protected cycle track.
This year the coalition made a special award to the Most Improved Borough Newham which leapt 5 places, from overall 13th to 8th place on the Scorecard.
The council increased the proportion of schools with a traffic-free School Street from 21% to 44% of all schools in the borough. They also increased the proportion of streets covered by a 20mph speed limit from 41% to 99%.
Ealing also made improvements, rising from 18th place to 15th, and is now the second best Outer London borough. The council increased the proportion of schools with a school street (from 25% to 36%) and the proportion of roads with a 20mph speed limit (from 88% to 100%). Lambeth jumped two places from 8th to 6th place, with a big increase in the proportion of schools with a school street, rising from 35% to 48%, and small improvements on many other indicators.
At the other end of the scale, Tower Hamlets dropped a disappointing 4 places – the most of any borough in terms of a drop in rank order, and largely due to inaction compared to others. Lewisham also dropped 3 places, with small decreases across many indicators, and despite a promising and welcome increase in controlled parking coverage from 21% to 26% of roads, and despite a top score on traffic-free ‘school streets’. Lewisham and Kensington and Chelsea remain at the bottom of the Inner London boroughs, and Bexley and Hillingdon remain bottom of the outer London boroughs – reflecting inaction relative to other boroughs or just failure to take action at all. In Bexley’s case, they remain bottom of the table with little or no action on most indicators, though there was a welcome increase in controlled parking from 16% to 23% of streets.
A coalition spokesperson said: “Congratulations and thanks to our winners, but we really need all councils pulling their weight, urgently. The boroughs have dedicated Local Implementation Plan funding and need to move fast to deliver if any of the Mayor’s ‘healthy streets’ targets for London are to be met. Now is the time for boroughs at bottom of table to start acting more like Newham and the scorecard leaders, to show their declarations of action on road danger, climate, health and air pollution are in any way meaningful. We really hope to see much stronger action from all boroughs in the coming year.”
Indicators summary
The London Boroughs Healthy Streets Scorecard sets out data showing the health of each borough’s streets according to a series of indicators. This year’s updated scores showed wide gaps on all indicators:
Input indicators
| Metric | Best borough(s) | Worst borough(s) |
| % of streets within Low Traffic Neighbourhoods | 69% (Hackney*) | 6% (Bexley) |
| % of borough roads with 20mph speed limits | 100% (Camden, Ealing, Lewisham, Islington, Southwark, Hammersmith & Fulham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster*) | 5% (Bromley) |
| % of roads within Controlled Parking Zones | 100% (Camden, Hackney, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Newham, Tower Hamlets*) | 11% (Bromley, Havering) |
| % of roads with protected cycle track | 12% (Waltham Forest*) | 0% (Kensington & Chelsea |
| Schools – % of schools with School Streets | 57% (Lewisham) | 0% (Bexley) |
| Schools – Travel for Life participation | 69% (Bromley) | 7% (Croydon) |
| % of bus route distance on roads with bus priority | 51% (Hackney*) | 1% (Bexley) |
Outcome indicators
| Metric | Best borough(s) | Worst borough(s) |
| % of journeys made by sustainable modes (public transport, walking and cycling) | 87% (Camden, Hackney, Westminster, Islington*) | 44% (Bexley) |
| % of adults who walk 5x a week | 46% (Wandsworth) | 24% (Hillingdon*) |
| % of adults who cycle 1x a week | 29% (Hackney) | 3% (Havering) |
| Pedestrian casualties per 100,000 journey stages | 3.5 (Richmond upon Thames) | 9.7 (Hounslow) |
| Cyclist casualties per 1,000 journey stages | 1.1 (Hackney) | 3.4 (Tower Hamlets) |
| Cars per 100 households | 29 (Islington*) | 106 (Hillingdon) |
| % of households without a car | 75% (Westminster, City of London**) | 22% (Havering) |
| Proportion of diesel cars | 13% (Sutton) | 21% (Barking & Dagenham) |
** Data for Westminster and City of London are combined in this data supplied to us by TfL.
Mapping for Scorecard 2025
The Healthy Streets Scorecard coalition continues to upgrade and develop new measures to improve the accuracy of its data and develop and introduce new scores every year. As a result, the Scorecard is now arguably the most advanced tool for measuring council progress on measures to reduce car use and enable alternatives to help London cut emissions and be healthier.
The coalition currently maps Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, Controlled Parking Zones, Cycle tracks, and Bus priority.
In the chart above, each of the ten indicator scores have been normalised to adjust the values measured on different scales to a common scale. The borough with the lowest score in the data range is given the value 0, and the borough with the highest score in the data range is given the value 1.
Note that a borough that has a normalised value of 1 has not achieved 100% of the indicator target, rather a value of 1 means that the borough has the highest score when compared to all 32 boroughs. (View the actual input and outcome indicator data). We can then compare boroughs and where they sit on a scale of zero to one.
For detailed information on how the overall scores are calculated, visit Final scores methodology
Download the London Boroughs Healthy Streets Scorecard (2024) indicator charts and summary
Download the London Boroughs Healthy Streets Scorecard (2024) indicators data
Download LIP3 (third local implementation plan) MTS (Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy) outcomes borough data pack (September 2019)