# London’s daily movement

> People, vehicles and station entries are three different ways of counting movement.

- Category: Transport
- Canonical: [https://londongraph.com/story/londons-daily-movement](https://londongraph.com/story/londons-daily-movement)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/story/londons-daily-movement](https://londongraph.com/data/story/londons-daily-movement)
- Latest contributing release: 2026-07-31T17:23:46.966Z

A bus with sixty passengers and a car with one occupant each count as one vehicle. Census working from home is a person response. Station entries are transactions. The contrasts matter more than a false combined total.

## Evidence

### Journey-to-work responses

Census 2021 method-of-travel categories, including working mainly from home.

- Current computed headline: Work from home — 0.42 share (Work from home)
- Driving: 0.21 share
- Release: not labelled
- Dataset: `mode-share`
- Explore: [how-london-moves](https://londongraph.com/g/how-london-moves)

### Road vehicle mix

The latest DfT counted-vehicle composition on London roads.

- 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)

### National Rail stations

Published entries and exits at London stations.

- Current computed headline: London Waterloo — 94,192,690 entries & exits (London Waterloo)
- London Victoria: 74,715,808 entries & exits
- Release: not labelled
- Dataset: `rail-usage`
- Explore: [busiest-stations](https://londongraph.com/g/busiest-stations)

## Interpretation

Census workplace responses describe March 2021 lockdown conditions; vehicle and station measures count different units and periods.

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

## Sources

- [ONS Census](https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/travel-in-london-reports)
- [Department for Transport](https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/)
- [London Datastore](https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/train-station-usage)