Cities / boroughs with the highest rates of cycling. Measured by cycling at least once a month.
cycle-rates-in selected-English cities
The top three Cycling Cities / boroughs are
- Cambridge 50% ,
- Isles of Scilly 41%
- Â Oxford. 33%
The areas with lowest rates of cycling in England are
- Barking and Dagenham 8%
- Hillingdon 8%
- Blackburn with Darwen 7%
List of Places in England with rates of Cycling at least once a month
| Borough |
% cycling once a month
|
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| Cambridge |
58
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| Isles of Scilly5 |
41
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| Oxford |
33
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| York |
32
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| South Cambridgeshire |
32
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| Gosport |
32
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| Cambridgeshire |
31
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| City of London5 |
30
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| Richmond upon Thames |
30
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| Rutland |
27
|
||
| Vale of White Horse |
27
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| Norwich |
26
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||
| Hackney |
26
|
||
| Worthing |
26
|
||
| Oxfordshire |
25
|
||
| Chichester |
25
|
||
| Mid Suffolk |
24
|
||
| Hart |
24
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||
| New Forest |
24
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||
| West Oxfordshire |
24
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||
| Elmbridge |
24
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||
| Bristol, City of |
24
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||
| Lancaster |
23
|
||
| South Norfolk |
23
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||
| Epsom and Ewell |
23
|
||
| Ryedale |
22
|
||
| Huntingdonshire |
22
|
||
| St Edmundsbury |
22
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||
| Lambeth |
22
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||
| Wokingham |
22
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||
| Test Valley |
22
|
||
| South Oxfordshire |
22
|
||
| Peterborough |
21
|
||
| Suffolk Coastal |
21
|
||
| Waveney |
21
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||
| Westminster |
21
|
||
| Bracknell Forest |
21
|
||
| Windsor and Maidenhead |
21
|
||
| Hampshire |
21
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||
| Havant |
21
|
||
| Winchester |
21
|
||
| Cotswold |
21
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||
| Sedgemoor |
21
|
||
| East Riding of Yorkshire |
20
|
||
| North East Lincolnshire |
20
|
||
| South Kesteven |
20
|
||
| Rushcliffe |
20
|
||
| Chelmsford |
20
|
||
| St Albans |
20
|
||
| Norfolk |
20
|
||
| Breckland |
20
|
||
| Camden |
20
|
||
| Hammersmith and Fulham |
20
|
||
| Kensington and Chelsea |
20
|
||
| Southwark |
20
|
||
| Wandsworth |
20
|
||
| Portsmouth |
20
|
||
| Dover |
20
|
||
| Mole Valley |
20
|
||
| Woking |
20
|
||
| West Sussex |
20
|
||
| Arun |
20
|
||
| South Gloucestershire |
20
|
||
| Swindon |
20
|
||
| Wiltshire |
20
|
||
| Exeter |
20
|
||
| Christchurch |
20
|
||
| Weymouth and Portland |
20
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||
| Kingston upon Hull, City of |
19
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| Charnwood |
19
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| Melton |
19
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||
| East Lindsey |
19
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||
| West Lindsey |
19
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||
| Tamworth |
19
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||
| East Cambridgeshire |
19
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||
| King’s Lynn and West Norfolk |
19
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||
| Suffolk |
19
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||
| Islington |
19
|
||
| West Berkshire |
19
|
||
| Rushmoor |
19
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||
| Guildford |
19
|
||
| Horsham |
19
|
||
| Bournemouth |
19
|
||
| Poole |
19
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||
| North Dorset |
19
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||
| Purbeck |
19
|
||
| Stroud |
19
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||
| Tewkesbury |
19
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||
| Cheshire East |
18
|
||
| Cheshire West and Chester |
18
|
||
| Warrington |
18
|
||
| Carlisle |
18
|
||
| South Lakeland |
18
|
||
| Hambleton |
18
|
||
| Harrogate |
18
|
||
| Erewash |
18
|
||
| Lincolnshire |
18
|
||
| Boston |
18
|
||
| Lincoln |
18
|
||
| Warwick |
18
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||
| Fenland |
18
|
||
| Uttlesford |
18
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||
| Merton |
18
|
||
|
18
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| Milton Keynes |
18
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||
| Reading |
18
|
||
| Basingstoke and Deane |
18
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||
| Fareham |
18
|
||
| Canterbury |
18
|
||
| Tunbridge Wells |
18
|
||
| Cherwell |
18
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||
| Surrey |
18
|
||
| Mid Sussex |
18
|
||
| Bath and North East Somerset |
18
|
||
| Dorset |
18
|
||
| Gloucestershire |
18
|
||
| Cheltenham |
18
|
||
| Gloucester |
18
|
||
| Taunton Deane |
18
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||
| Eden |
17
|
||
| Preston |
17
|
||
| North Yorkshire |
17
|
||
| Selby |
17
|
||
| Harborough |
17
|
||
| Hinckley and Bosworth |
17
|
||
| Northampton |
17
|
||
| East Staffordshire |
17
|
||
| Worcester |
17
|
||
| Rugby |
17
|
||
|
17
|
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| Bedford |
17
|
||
| Castle Point |
17
|
||
| Welwyn Hatfield |
17
|
||
| Broadland |
17
|
||
| Forest Heath |
17
|
||
| Swale |
17
|
||
| Thanet |
17
|
||
| Tonbridge and Malling |
17
|
||
| Runnymede |
17
|
||
| Surrey Heath |
17
|
||
| Waverley |
17
|
||
| Adur |
17
|
||
|
17
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| East Devon |
17
|
||
| East Dorset |
17
|
||
| Darlington |
16
|
||
| Craven |
16
|
||
| Richmondshire |
16
|
||
| Derbyshire Dales |
16
|
||
| Leicestershire |
16
|
||
| North Kesteven |
16
|
||
| Daventry |
16
|
||
| Newark and Sherwood |
16
|
||
| Lichfield |
16
|
||
| Bromsgrove |
16
|
||
| Solihull |
16
|
||
| Central Bedfordshire |
16
|
||
| Braintree |
16
|
||
| North Norfolk |
16
|
||
| Ipswich |
16
|
||
|
16
|
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| Hounslow |
16
|
||
| Kingston upon Thames |
16
|
||
| Lewisham |
16
|
||
| Tower Hamlets |
16
|
||
| Aylesbury Vale |
16
|
||
| Lewes |
16
|
||
| East Hampshire |
16
|
||
| Kent |
16
|
||
| Ashford |
16
|
||
| Tandridge |
16
|
||
| Somerset |
16
|
||
| Middlesbrough |
15
|
||
| Cumbria |
15
|
||
| Barrow-in-Furness |
15
|
||
| Ribble Valley |
15
|
||
| South Ribble |
15
|
||
| West Lancashire |
15
|
||
| Trafford |
15
|
||
| North Lincolnshire |
15
|
||
|
15
|
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| Derby |
15
|
||
| South Derbyshire |
15
|
||
| Blaby |
15
|
||
| Nottinghamshire |
15
|
||
| Bassetlaw |
15
|
||
| Broxtowe |
15
|
||
| South Staffordshire |
15
|
||
| Stratford-on-Avon |
15
|
||
| Southend-on-Sea |
15
|
||
| Essex |
15
|
||
| Colchester |
15
|
||
| Croydon |
15
|
||
| Ealing |
15
|
||
| Sutton |
15
|
||
| Buckinghamshire |
15
|
||
| Chiltern |
15
|
||
| South Bucks |
15
|
||
| Eastbourne |
15
|
||
| Gravesham |
15
|
||
| Cornwall |
15
|
||
| North Somerset |
15
|
||
| Plymouth |
15
|
||
| Devon |
15
|
||
| Teignbridge |
15
|
||
| West Dorset |
15
|
||
| Northumberland |
14
|
||
| Redcar and Cleveland |
14
|
||
| Stockton-on-Tees |
14
|
||
| North Tyneside |
14
|
||
| Lancashire |
14
|
||
| Wyre |
14
|
||
| High Peak |
14
|
||
| South Holland |
14
|
||
| Northamptonshire |
14
|
||
| Herefordshire, County of |
14
|
||
| Telford and Wrekin |
14
|
||
| Staffordshire |
14
|
||
| Stafford |
14
|
||
| Worcestershire |
14
|
||
| Wyre Forest |
14
|
||
| Warwickshire |
14
|
||
| Harlow |
14
|
||
| Maldon |
14
|
||
| Rochford |
14
|
||
| Hertfordshire |
14
|
||
| North Hertfordshire |
14
|
||
| Three Rivers |
14
|
||
| Watford |
14
|
||
| Great Yarmouth |
14
|
||
| Babergh |
14
|
||
| Brent |
14
|
||
| Bromley |
14
|
||
| Haringey |
14
|
||
| Waltham Forest |
14
|
||
| Southampton |
14
|
||
| Wycombe |
14
|
||
| Wealden |
14
|
||
| Maidstone |
14
|
||
| Reigate and Banstead |
14
|
||
| Spelthorne |
14
|
||
| Mid Devon |
14
|
||
| Torridge |
14
|
||
| Forest of Dean |
14
|
||
| West Somerset |
14
|
||
| Hartlepool |
13
|
||
|
13
|
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| Chorley |
13
|
||
| Fylde |
13
|
||
| Bury |
13
|
||
| Manchester |
13
|
||
| Salford |
13
|
||
| Stockport |
13
|
||
| Sefton |
13
|
||
|
13
|
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| Nottingham |
13
|
||
| Derbyshire |
13
|
||
| Amber Valley |
13
|
||
| Chesterfield |
13
|
||
| Corby |
13
|
||
| South Northamptonshire |
13
|
||
| Wellingborough |
13
|
||
| Ashfield |
13
|
||
| Staffordshire Moorlands |
13
|
||
| Wychavon |
13
|
||
| Tendring |
13
|
||
| Enfield |
13
|
||
| Brighton and Hove |
13
|
||
| Isle of Wight |
13
|
||
| East Sussex |
13
|
||
| Eastleigh |
13
|
||
| Sevenoaks |
13
|
||
| Crawley |
13
|
||
| North Devon |
13
|
||
| West Devon |
13
|
||
| Mendip |
13
|
||
| South Somerset |
13
|
||
| Durham |
12
|
||
| Tyne and Wear (Met County) |
12
|
||
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
12
|
||
| South Tyneside |
12
|
||
| Blackpool |
12
|
||
| Allerdale |
12
|
||
| Greater Manchester (Met County) |
12
|
||
| Tameside |
12
|
||
| Wigan |
12
|
||
| Wirral |
12
|
||
| Scarborough |
12
|
||
| Kettering |
12
|
||
| Gedling |
12
|
||
| Mansfield |
12
|
||
|
12
|
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| Cannock Chase |
12
|
||
| Malvern Hills |
12
|
||
| Redditch |
12
|
||
| Broxbourne |
12
|
||
| East Hertfordshire |
12
|
||
| Greenwich |
12
|
||
| Slough |
12
|
||
| Rother |
12
|
||
| Torbay |
12
|
||
| Halton |
11
|
||
| Copeland |
11
|
||
| Merseyside (Met County) |
11
|
||
| Liverpool |
11
|
||
| Doncaster |
11
|
||
| Bradford |
11
|
||
| Leeds |
11
|
||
| East Northamptonshire |
11
|
||
| Stoke-on-Trent |
11
|
||
| Shropshire |
11
|
||
| North Warwickshire |
11
|
||
| Nuneaton and Bedworth |
11
|
||
| West Midlands (Met County) |
11
|
||
| Birmingham |
11
|
||
| Coventry |
11
|
||
| Dudley |
11
|
||
| Basildon |
11
|
||
| Brentwood |
11
|
||
| Epping Forest |
11
|
||
| Dacorum |
11
|
||
| Stevenage |
11
|
||
| Bexley |
11
|
||
| Newham |
11
|
||
| Redbridge |
11
|
||
| Medway |
11
|
||
| Dartford |
11
|
||
| Shepway |
11
|
||
| Gateshead |
10
|
||
| Sunderland |
10
|
||
| Pendle |
10
|
||
| St. Helens |
10
|
||
| South Yorkshire (Met County) |
10
|
||
| Barnsley |
10
|
||
| Sheffield |
10
|
||
| West Yorkshire (Met County) |
10
|
||
| Wakefield |
10
|
||
| North East Derbyshire |
10
|
||
| North West Leicestershire |
10
|
||
| Wolverhampton |
10
|
||
| Barnet |
10
|
||
| Harrow |
10
|
||
| Havering |
10
|
||
| South Hams |
10
|
||
| Bolton |
9
|
||
| Oldham |
9
|
||
| Rochdale |
9
|
||
| Kirklees |
9
|
||
| Leicester |
9
|
||
| Bolsover |
9
|
||
| Newcastle-under-Lyme |
9
|
||
| Sandwell |
9
|
||
| Walsall |
9
|
||
| Thurrock |
9
|
||
| Hertsmere |
9
|
||
| Hastings |
9
|
||
| Burnley |
8
|
||
| Hyndburn |
8
|
||
| Rossendale |
8
|
||
| Knowsley |
8
|
||
| Rotherham |
8
|
||
| Calderdale |
8
|
||
| Oadby and Wigston |
8
|
||
| Luton |
8
|
||
| Barking and Dagenham |
8
|
||
| Hillingdon |
8
|
||
| Blackburn with Darwen |
7
|
||
- 10 per cent of adults cycle at least once per week. This figure varies significantly by area, from over 50 per cent to less than 5 per cent.
- 11 per cent of adults cycle for at least half an hour, at least once per month. Across different areas, this proportion ranges from 35 per cent to 4 per cent.
Amongst those who do some cycling for at least half an hour, 16 per cent always do so for utility purposes (getting from place to place), rather than for recreation or health reasons. - 71 per cent of adults walk for at least half an hour, at least once per month. Across different areas, this proportion ranges from over 80 per cent to around 60 per cent.
- 23 per cent of those who do some walking for at least half an hour do so exclusively for utility purposes. The share of utility walking is highest in London, where 35 per cent of those who walk do so only for utility purposes.
Most Popular London Boroughs To Cycle
This shows a large disparity between the most popular boroughs for cycling – City of London, Richmond (30%) and the least popular boroughs Barking and Dagenham and Hillingson 8%
Source:
Dept of Transport. Local area walking and cycling survey
more cycle stats
Blackburn roads have so many bloomin potholes! And young racer lads driving hired cards too – honestly hate the ride to my other half’s house in Bburn town centre. Bits of Accrington can be just as bad and dont even mention the Rossendale Gyratory and road to Haslingden! Thankfully miles and miles of other good cycling routes in East Lancs. Phew
Blackburn & Darwen: on my most recent LEJOG ride I made the mistake of booking into the Slaidburn YHA – which is in a gloroious part of the world but not so good when cycling there from Blackburn … them thar hills could be the reason why there isn’t much cycling there.
Having said that, once the moors to High Bentham and beyond had been dealt with, there was a nice steady climb up the Lune Gorge – which was superb; the decent from Shap northward is worthwhile.
I’m very disappointed to see how poorly my area, and neighbouring areas, do – Chiltern – though I think the reason it is so low is the same one why you cycle here at times: hills. You can’t go more than a couple of miles without having steep hills to climb or decend, often on narrow roads, and I think it puts a lot of people off.
What a shame. They are missing out.
Maybe, though Bristol is quite hilly and for short distances it doesn’t seem to discourage too much