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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
King's Cross St Pancras |  69.94 |
36.73 |
 18.84 |
88.27 |
89.82 |
97.92 |
95.03 |
93.41 |
91.98 |
84.87 | |
2 |
Waterloo | 68.72 |
29.87 |
16.62 |
82.93 |
76.54 |
91.27 |
100.36 |
95.14 |
91.49 |
89.40 | |
3 |
Victoria | 56.43 |
33.48 |
22.95 |
85.47 |
84.47 |
79.36 |
83.50 |
82.89 |
86.73 |
84.58 | |
4 |
London Bridge | 56.20 |
30.86 |
24.72 |
74.34 |
70.20 |
69.05 |
70.74 |
71.96 |
74.98 |
69.88 | |
5 |
Liverpool Street | 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, for the 2023 data
- 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.