# Who gets London’s streets?

> Car ownership, traffic, cycle parking and road injury describe competing claims on the same space.

- Category: Transport
- Canonical: [https://londongraph.com/story/who-gets-londons-streets](https://londongraph.com/story/who-gets-londons-streets)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/story/who-gets-londons-streets](https://londongraph.com/data/story/who-gets-londons-streets)
- Latest contributing release: 2026-08-02T22:05:19.759Z

Households, vehicles, parking stands and casualties are different units. The story uses those differences to show how street space is counted, without converting them into a synthetic mobility score.

## Evidence

### Car-free households

Census households reporting no car or van at neighbourhood level.

- Current computed headline: Southwark 009H — 89.76% (2021)
- London median: 38.99%
- Release: Census 2021 TS045
- Dataset: `census-neighbourhood-cars`
- Explore: [car-free-london](https://londongraph.com/g/car-free-london)

### Counted vehicles

The composition of vehicles in the latest DfT London road counts.

- Current computed headline: Cars and taxis — 0.69 share of counted vehicles (Cars and taxis)
- Vans: 0.17 share of counted vehicles
- Release: not labelled
- Dataset: `traffic-mix`
- Explore: [what-is-on-the-road](https://londongraph.com/g/what-is-on-the-road)

### Cycle parking

Recorded cycle-parking spaces by borough in the TfL inventory.

- Current computed headline: Hackney — 12,322 cycle parking spaces (Hackney)
- Westminster: 10,703 cycle parking spaces
- Release: not labelled
- Dataset: `cycle-parking-borough`
- Explore: [cycle-parking-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/g/cycle-parking-by-borough)
- Caveat: Inventory coverage and recording practice vary.

### Road collisions

Published London collision totals and severity over time.

- Current computed headline: slight — 43,060 collisions (2019)
- serious: 7,326 collisions
- Release: not labelled
- Dataset: `collision-trend`
- Explore: [collisions-over-time](https://londongraph.com/g/collisions-over-time)

## Interpretation

These sources count households, observed vehicles, infrastructure records and collisions. Exposure differs, and raw collision totals are not individual risk rates.

Every numerical claim is computed from the current versioned datasets at render time. Missing data is reported as missing rather than replaced.

## Sources

- [Office for National Statistics / Nomis](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2021/bulk)
- [Department for Transport](https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/)
- [TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database](https://cycling.data.tfl.gov.uk/)
- [Department for Transport — STATS19](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/road-safety-open-data)