List of busiest London Underground stations
This is a list of busiest London Underground stations for the 2022 calendar year. The dataset records patterns of mobility for the first full year after travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom were completely eliminated, with increased levels of mobility when compared with the 2021 data although still not fully recovered from 2019.
The London Underground is a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom that serves London and the neighbouring counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Its first section opened in 1863. Annualised entry/exit counts were recorded at 270 stations in 2022.[a] In 2022, King's Cross St Pancras was the busiest station on the network, used by over 69.94 million passengers, while Roding Valley was the least used with 259,271 passengers.[b] Data for 2022 was published on 4 October 2023.[1]
This table shows the busiest stations with over 33 million entries and exits in 2022.
Rank (2022) | Station | Zone(s) | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018[c] | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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1 | King's Cross St Pancras | 1 | 69.94 | 36.73 | 18.84 | 88.27 | 89.82 | 97.92 | 95.03 | 93.41 | 91.98 | 84.87 |
2 | Waterloo | 1 | 68.72 | 29.87 | 16.62 | 82.93 | 76.54 | 91.27 | 100.36 | 95.14 | 91.49 | 89.40 |
3 | Victoria | 1 | 56.43 | 33.48 | 22.95 | 85.47 | 84.47 | 79.36 | 83.50 | 82.89 | 86.73 | 84.58 |
4 | London Bridge | 1 | 56.20 | 30.86 | 24.72 | 74.34 | 70.20 | 69.05 | 70.74 | 71.96 | 74.98 | 69.88 |
5 | Liverpool Street | 1 | 55.83 | 26.60 | 16.27 | 67.20 | 65.03 | 67.74 | 71.61 | 73.26 | 73.66 | 67.89 |
6 | Oxford Circus | 54.02 | 32.86 | 14.60 | 78.07 | 76.40 | 84.09 | 83.26 | 92.36 | 98.51 | 85.25 | |
7 | Tottenham Court Road[d] | 48.95 | 16.04 | 6.04 | 41.99 | 38.73 | 41.33 | 39.35 | 16.25 | 36.76 | 38.06 | |
8 | Stratford[e] | 47.88 | 29.10 | 25.07 | 64.85 | 64.73 | 61.99 | 67.05 | 61.44 | 59.31 | 54.50 | |
9 | Paddington[f] | 46.65 | 20.44 | 11.42 | 48.61 | 44.60 | 48.82 | 49.48 | 49.64 | 49.28 | 49.71 | |
10 | Bond Street | 35.41 | 15.69 | 9.68 | 37.49 | 36.75 | 38.80 | 39.53 | 37.12 | 19.80 | 39.65 | |
11 | Bank and Monument[g] | 34.40 | 17.66 | 8.59 | 61.79 | 54.77 | 61.80 | 64.26 | 57.51 | 52.31 | 48.88 |
See also
- List of busiest London Underground stations (2021)
- List of busiest London Underground stations (2020)
- List of busiest London Underground stations (2019)
- List of London Underground stations
- List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain
Notes
- ^ Bank and Monument stations operate as a combined station with shared usage statistics as do the two physically separate stations at Paddington.
- ^ Kensington (Olympia) passengers are not recorded separately from London Overground passengers.
- ^ The method of calculating usage changed in 2018 from estimates based on survey counts carried out on a few days to actual counts of gate entry date for each day.[1]
- ^ The ranking of Tottenham Court Road was affected in 2015, as the Central line was not stopping there between 5 January and 7 December.
- ^ Includes DLR usage.
- ^ The two Paddington stations operate as a combined station with shared usage statistics.
- ^ Bank and Monument stations operate as a combined station with shared usage statistics. Includes DLR usage.
References
- ^ a b c "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.