This statistic shows the leading mass-market shopping streets ranked by footfall in Europe in 2021. Of the prime shopping streets, Schildergasse, which is located in Cologne, Germany, was measured as having the highest footfall count, at approximately ****** pedestrians on the selected sample Saturday. Oxford Street, London, stood in second place that year, with approximately ****** pedestrians.

A 2022 study examined the footfall of selected tourist attractions and out-of-town shopping areas in Europe. This metric is used to compare pedestrian flow dynamics of urban locations, such as shopping centers and retail parks. Based on the analysis, the shopping destination La Valette-du-Var-La Garde in Toulon, France, reported around ********** visits in 2022. That was more than **** times the visits to Notre-Dame in Paris that year. Meanwhile, the footfall of West Thurrock in Greater London was roughly ** times higher than the visits to St. Paul's Cathedral.

Retail footfall in British high streets bounced back from the pandemic-driven sluggish shopper numbers around January 2023. But despite the recovering numbers, high streets still struggled with diminishing visits and frequent fluctuations. In the most recently reported period (October 2025), there was an increase of *** percent of visitors to UK high streets after a year-on-year decrease the previous month. Similar fluctuations in footfall trends appeared in shopping centers as well. Retail locations out of favor With more and more shoppers turning to the convenience of online shopping, the landscape of high street retailing is transforming as store closures are dealing many retail and leisure store categories hard blows. This was exacerbated by the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In 2024, there were over ****** store closures in the United Kingdom. Store closures before the pandemic Even before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit, UK retail sector had been going through what many have dubbed as "the retail apocalypse". Many retailers saw store closures and ensuing job losses a year before the pandemic. Among these, Poundland had the highest number of staff lay-offs resulting from store closures.

The three busiest stations on the London Underground network are all major interchanges for national rail and long-distance bus services. In 2023, the busiest station on the London Underground system was King's Cross St. Pancras, with over 72 million passenger entries and exits recorded. The second and third busiest stations were Waterloo and Victoria, with 70.3 and 59.6 million entries and exits respectively. Passenger traffic on the London Underground Passenger traffic increased significantly over the past 20 years. Between 2000 and 2019, the number of passenger journeys more than doubled, reaching its highest value in the financial year 2017/18, when the number of journeys almost reached 1.4 billion. Passenger volumes dropped in during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and remained low in the following years. By the 2023/24 financial year, passenger numbers had recovered to 1.2 billion passengers. The Tube, big contributor to the TfL's revenue London Underground fares make up the greatest contribution to overall passenger revenue of Transport for London (TfL). The Tube reported a passenger income of 2.5 billion British pounds in the financial year 2023/24, up from 2.2 billion reported a year earlier. Overall, TfL generated revenue worth over five billion British pounds from all the services in the financial year 2023/24.

The Daily average footfall volumes and OA numbers of HAZs in eight policy restriction phases.

This statistic shows the leading luxury and mixed mass-market to luxury shopping streets ranked by footfall in Europe in 2021. Of the prime luxury shopping streets, Regent Street in London, UK, was measured as having the highest footfall count, at nearly ****** pedestrians on the selected sample Saturday. Avenue des Champs Elysées, which is located in Paris, France ranked second with approximately ****** visitors.

Boundaries of High Streets as developed by the Regeneration team at the Greater London Authority. NOTE: these boundaries will be used when sharing data about High Street spend and footfall. They reflect the wider uses of High Streets including community, public and cultural, in addition to concentrations of retail units.

National and local restrictions and policies affecting London, by date.

Supplied as an experimental dataset to provide context for analysis of other social or economic datasets, for instance, footfall and spend data timeseries.

Information was mainly gathered from government announcements published by the Prime Minister's Office.

The restrictions and policies included are:

• School closures - complete closures only
• Pub closures - excluding pubs that serve food
• Shop closures - non-essential
• Eating Places closures - including pubs that serve food
• Stay at home orders
• Household mixing indoors banned
• Working from home encouraged
• Rule of 6 indoors
• 10pm curfew on hospitality
• Eat Out to Help Out scheme

Unibal Rodamco Westfield owns four shopping centers in the UK: London, Stratford City, and Centrale and Whitgift in Croydon. In 2024, the were nearly ** million customer visits in total to these shopping centers. This was an increase compared to the previous year.

As of 2025, Westfield White City was the largest shopping center in the United Kingdom. The shopping center covered about *** thousand square meters, while The Trafford Centre, in second place, spanned over *** thousand square meters. Westfield’s retail properties Both Westfield White City and Westfield Stratford were leading shopping centers in the United Kingdom in 2024. The Westfield shopping centers are home to almost *** stores combined and see over ** million customer visits each year. Success despite fluctuating footfall Retail footfall in UK shopping centers saw a dramatic decline due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in 2020, even compared to other shopping destinations, like retail parks and high streets. Since then, footfall in shopping centers has largely recovered but remains unstable, making it all the more notable that the United Kingdom was leading the European shopping center market in 2023, and contextualizing Westfield’s ongoing success on both national and global levels.

Selfridges is an upmarket department store with only four locations across the United Kingdom. In 2024, the retailer delivered a revenue of ***** million British pounds worldwide, which represented a slight decrease from the previous year. This was less than ** million pounds away from Selfridge's highest annual revenue, which came in the financial year which ended at the beginning of 2020. Difficult times for department stores The fall in revenue in 2021 had a significant impact on the business. In that year, Selfridges registered huge losses to its net worth, which fell by around*********** in 2021 compared to the previous year. Selfridges was not the only department store that struggled. The volume of retail sales in department and non-specialized stores in Great Britain has steadily fallen since 2018. Debenhams was forced into closure, and bought by online retailer Boohoo. This came only a couple of years after House of Fraser went into administration, before being bought by Sports Direct. Luxury department stores However, in 2024 as shown here, Selfridges' revenue had almost recovered to pre-pandemic levels, and competitor Harrods had also seen a significant increase in revenue in 2024. This suggests that there might be better times ahead for luxury department stores.