New analysis ranks borough fourth for most traffic in London in 2023

Barnet has been ranked fourth in London for most traffic last year, according to a new analysis of government data.

Tech firm Descartes Systems UK analysed government data on road traffic for 2023 to reveal which borough of London had the highest volume of traffic and whether or not there had been a change pre and post pandemic.

Outer London dominates the list, although the full impact of the expansion of Transport for London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) is not captured by the data as this only happened more than halfway through last year.

Hillingdon ranks as the borough with the most traffic pass through over 2023 (1.436 million miles), followed by Havering (1.117m), Enfield (1.114m), Barnet (1.035m) and Hounslow (1.017m).

Unsurprisingly the busiest boroughs match up with the areas where motorways meet the capital.

However, Barnet’s traffic congestion has declined since the pre-pandemic year of 2019, with 97,000 fewer miles being driven in the borough in 2023, one of the biggest falls in London.

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