List of busiest London Underground stations

This is a list of busiest London Underground stations for the 2023 calendar year. The dataset records increased levels of mobility when compared with the 2022 data although still not fully recovered from the peak of 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 2023.^[a] In 2023, King's Cross St Pancras was the busiest station on the network, used by over 72.14 million passengers, while Roding Valley was the least used with 267,679 passengers.^[b] Data for 2023 was published on 8 August 2024.^[1]

This table shows the busiest stations with over 33 million entries and exits in 2023.

Busiest London Underground stations (entries and exits, in millions)^[1]
Rank (2023)	Station	Zone(s)	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018^[c]	2017	2016	2015	2014
1	King's Cross St Pancras	1	72.12	69.94	36.73	18.84	88.27	89.82	97.92	95.03	93.41	91.98
2	Waterloo	1	70.33	68.72	29.87	16.62	82.93	76.54	91.27	100.36	95.14	91.49
3	Victoria	1	59.57	56.43	33.48	22.95	85.47	84.47	79.36	83.50	82.89	86.73
4	Tottenham Court Road^[d]	1	58.72	48.95	16.04	6.04	41.99	38.73	41.33	39.35	16.25	36.76
5	Liverpool Street	1	57.23	55.83	26.60	16.27	67.20	65.03	67.74	71.61	73.26	73.66
6	London Bridge	1	54.77	56.20	30.86	24.72	74.34	70.20	69.05	70.74	71.96	74.98
7	Stratford^[e]	2/3	54.38	47.88	29.10	25.07	64.85	64.73	61.99	67.05	61.44	59.31
8	Oxford Circus	1	51.11	54.02	32.86	14.60	78.07	76.40	84.09	83.26	92.36	98.51
9	Paddington^[f]	1	48.55	46.65	20.44	11.42	48.61	44.60	48.82	49.48	49.64	49.28
10	Farringdon	1	40.07	30.07	8.50	5.90	25.92	23.64	18.71	15.87	23.77	23.63
11	Bond Street	1	37.42	35.41	15.69	9.68	37.49	36.75	38.80	39.53	37.12	19.80
12	Bank and Monument^[g]	1	37.20	34.40	17.66	8.59	61.79	54.77	61.80	64.26	57.51	52.31

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. Kentish Town station was closed throughout 2023.
^ 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, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.