List of busiest London Underground stations (2022)
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.
Busiest London Underground stations (entries and exits, in millions)[1]
^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.