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.[lower-alpha 1] 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.[lower-alpha 2] 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[lower-alpha 3] | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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1 | King's Cross St Pancras | ![]() |
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2 | Waterloo | ![]() |
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3 | Victoria | ![]() |
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4 | London Bridge | ![]() |
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5 | Liverpool Street | ![]() |
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6 | Oxford Circus | ![]() |
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7 | Tottenham Court Road[lower-alpha 4] | ![]() |
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8 | Stratford[lower-alpha 5] | ![]() |
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9 | Paddington[lower-alpha 6] | ![]() |
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10 | Bond Street | ![]() |
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11 | Bank and Monument[lower-alpha 7] | ![]() |
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See also
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
- "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.