{"schemaVersion":"1.0","type":"DataStory","id":"who-gets-londons-streets","title":"Who gets London’s streets?","description":"Car ownership, traffic, cycle parking and road injury describe competing claims on the same space.","introduction":"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.","category":"Transport","canonical":"https://londongraph.com/story/who-gets-londons-streets","markdown":"https://londongraph.com/story/who-gets-londons-streets/index.html.md","updatedAt":"2026-08-02T22:05:19.759Z","caveat":"These sources count households, observed vehicles, infrastructure records and collisions. Exposure differs, and raw collision totals are not individual risk rates.","evidence":[{"dataset":"census-neighbourhood-cars","graphSlug":"car-free-london","label":"Car-free households","text":"Census households reporting no car or van at neighbourhood level.","shape":"area","metric":"no_car_households_percent","unit":"%","graph":"https://londongraph.com/g/car-free-london","claim":{"dataset":"census-neighbourhood-cars","graphSlug":"car-free-london","label":"Car-free households","text":"Census households reporting no car or van at neighbourhood level.","headlineLabel":"Southwark 009H","value":89.75999999999999,"unit":"%","period":"2021","comparisonLabel":"London median","comparisonValue":38.98946046308431,"caveat":null,"release":{"updatedAt":"2026-08-02T22:05:19.759Z","resourceUrl":"https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2021/bulk","methodologyUrl":"https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2021/bulk","releaseLabel":"Census 2021 TS045","sourcePublishedAt":"2021-03-21T00:00:00.000Z","resourceChecksum":"7ff2fd9263ac24350feec0b8b5ecd0e225af1d2444845c40cdbe685bb10ab685"}}},{"dataset":"traffic-mix","graphSlug":"what-is-on-the-road","label":"Counted vehicles","text":"The composition of vehicles in the latest DfT London road counts.","shape":"categories","graph":"https://londongraph.com/g/what-is-on-the-road","claim":{"dataset":"traffic-mix","graphSlug":"what-is-on-the-road","label":"Counted vehicles","text":"The composition of vehicles in the latest DfT London road counts.","headlineLabel":"Cars and taxis","value":0.6908,"unit":"share of counted vehicles","period":"Cars and taxis","comparisonLabel":"Vans","comparisonValue":0.1654,"caveat":null,"release":{"updatedAt":"2026-07-31T17:23:46.966Z","resourceUrl":null,"methodologyUrl":null,"releaseLabel":null,"sourcePublishedAt":null,"resourceChecksum":null}}},{"dataset":"cycle-parking-borough","graphSlug":"cycle-parking-by-borough","label":"Cycle parking","text":"Recorded cycle-parking spaces by borough in the TfL inventory.","shape":"categories","caveat":"Inventory coverage and recording practice vary.","graph":"https://londongraph.com/g/cycle-parking-by-borough","claim":{"dataset":"cycle-parking-borough","graphSlug":"cycle-parking-by-borough","label":"Cycle parking","text":"Recorded cycle-parking spaces by borough in the TfL inventory.","headlineLabel":"Hackney","value":12322,"unit":"cycle parking spaces","period":"Hackney","comparisonLabel":"Westminster","comparisonValue":10703,"caveat":"Inventory coverage and recording practice vary.","release":{"updatedAt":"2026-07-31T23:39:09.552Z","resourceUrl":null,"methodologyUrl":null,"releaseLabel":null,"sourcePublishedAt":null,"resourceChecksum":null}}},{"dataset":"collision-trend","graphSlug":"collisions-over-time","label":"Road collisions","text":"Published London collision totals and severity over time.","shape":"latest","graph":"https://londongraph.com/g/collisions-over-time","claim":{"dataset":"collision-trend","graphSlug":"collisions-over-time","label":"Road collisions","text":"Published London collision totals and severity over time.","headlineLabel":"slight","value":43060,"unit":"collisions","period":"2019","comparisonLabel":"serious","comparisonValue":7326,"caveat":null,"release":{"updatedAt":"2026-07-31T14:28:49.889Z","resourceUrl":null,"methodologyUrl":null,"releaseLabel":null,"sourcePublishedAt":null,"resourceChecksum":null}}}],"sources":[{"name":"Office for National Statistics / Nomis","url":"https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2021/bulk","graphSlug":"car-free-london"},{"name":"Department for Transport","url":"https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/","graphSlug":"what-is-on-the-road"},{"name":"TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database","url":"https://cycling.data.tfl.gov.uk/","graphSlug":"cycle-parking-by-borough"},{"name":"Department for Transport — STATS19","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/road-safety-open-data","graphSlug":"collisions-over-time"}]}