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 | 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 [lower-alpha 4] | 48.95 | 16.04 | 6.04 | 41.99 | 38.73 | 41.33 | 39.35 | 16.25 | 36.76 | 38.06 | |
8 | Stratford [lower-alpha 5] | 47.88 | 29.10 | 25.07 | 64.85 | 64.73 | 61.99 | 67.05 | 61.44 | 59.31 | 54.50 | |
9 | Paddington [lower-alpha 6] | 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 [lower-alpha 7] | 34.40 | 17.66 | 8.59 | 61.79 | 54.77 | 61.80 | 64.26 | 57.51 | 52.31 | 48.88 |
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Kensington (Olympia) is a combined rail and tube station in Kensington, on the edge of Central London. Services are provided by London Overground, who manage the station, along with Southern and London Underground. It is in Travelcard Zone 2. On the Underground it is the terminus of a short District line branch from Earl's Court, originally built as part of the Middle Circle. On the main-line railway it is on the West London Line from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction, by which trains bypass inner London. The station's name is drawn from its location in Kensington and the adjacent Olympia exhibition centre.
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Chalk Farm is a London Underground station near Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden. It is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line between Belsize Park and Camden Town stations. For ticketing purposes, Chalk Farm falls in Travelcard Zone 2. With slightly under five million entries and exits in 2011, Chalk Farm is one of the busiest stations on the Edgware branch of the Northern line.
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