List of busiest London Underground stations (2021)

Last updated October 07, 2024

This is a list of busiest London Underground stations for the 2021 calendar year. The dataset records patterns of mobility during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, with significantly reduced levels of mobility when compared with the 2019 data. Extended periods of significantly reduced commuting and other travel caused many major central London stations to drop in the ranking during 2020 and for larger suburban stations to replace them. With pandemic restrictions eliminated during the year, this was reversed during 2021.

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 2021.^{[lower-alpha 1]} In 2021, King's Cross St Pancras was the busiest station on the network, used by over 36.73 million passengers, while Kensington (Olympia) was the least used, with 34,499 passengers. Data for 2021 was published on 17 May 2022 and was revised on 8 July 2022.^[1]

This table shows the busiest stations with over 14 million entries and exits in 2021.

Busiest London Underground stations (entries and exits, in millions)^[1]
Rank (2021)	Station	Zone(s)	2021	2020	2019	2018^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
1	King's Cross St Pancras	1	36.73	18.84	88.27	89.82	97.92	95.03	93.41	91.98	84.87	80.97
2	Victoria	1	33.48	22.95	85.47	84.47	79.36	83.50	82.89	86.73	84.58	82.96
3	Oxford Circus	1	32.86	14.60	78.07	76.40	84.09	83.26	92.36	98.51	85.25	80.55
4	London Bridge	1	30.86	24.72	74.34	70.20	69.05	70.74	71.96	74.98	69.88	67.16
5	Waterloo	1	29.87	16.62	82.93	76.54	91.27	100.36	95.14	91.49	89.40	88.16
6	Stratford	2/3	29.10	25.07	64.85	64.73	61.99	67.05	61.44	59.31	54.50	50.96
7	Liverpool Street	1	26.60	16.27	67.20	65.03	67.74	71.61	73.26	73.66	67.89	64.23
8	Paddington ^{[lower-alpha 3]}	1	20.44	11.42	48.61	44.60	48.82	49.48	49.64	49.28	49.71	46.33
9	Canary Wharf	2	18.29	13.36	47.69	43.62	50.91	54.79	54.44	51.81	50.05	48.04
10	Bank and Monument ^{[lower-alpha 4]}	1	17.66	8.59	61.79	54.77	61.80	64.26	57.51	52.31	48.88	47.75
11	Leicester Square	1	16.34	3.95	34.56	35.07	36.73	37.84	43.75	43.31	38.60	38.51
12	Tottenham Court Road ^{[lower-alpha 5]}	1	16.04	6.04	41.99	38.73	41.33	39.35	16.25	36.76	38.06	36.01
13	Green Park	1	15.94	9.44	39.06	37.81	39.34	41.24	39.55	39.83	35.46	33.99
14	Euston	1	15.88	8.79	41.09	31.51	43.07	43.10	42.16	41.33	38.03	37.53
15	Bond Street	1	15.69	9.68	37.49	36.75	38.80	39.53	37.12	19.80	39.65	38.07
16	Piccadilly Circus	1	14.14	4.17	38.40	39.61	40.82	41.29	42.80	42.93	41.70	42.36
17	Finsbury Park	2	14.05	15.82	33.44	23.89	31.22	32.74	28.85	28.00	27.07	26.04

Notes

↑ Bank and Monument stations operate as a combined station with shared usage statistics. Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms were added to the network during 2021.
↑ 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 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.
↑ The ranking of Tottenham Court Road was affected in 2015, as the Central line was not stopping there between 5 January and 7 December.

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1 2 3 "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

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[1] Bank and Monument stations operate as a combined station with shared usage statistics. Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms were added to the network during 2021.

[3] 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]

[4] The two Paddington stations operate as a combined station with shared usage statistics.

[5] Bank and Monument stations operate as a combined station with shared usage statistics.

[6] The ranking of Tottenham Court Road was affected in 2015, as the Central line was not stopping there between 5 January and 7 December.

[TfL_count-2] 1 2 3 "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

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