Best cities for sports in London

BookrGo Best Sport Cities ranking: we rank the cities of London by their 0-10 sports score, which combines density of centers per resident, variety of sports, listing quality and real activity. To keep the comparison fair, we measure every city's offering with the same sources of national coverage. An honest way to see where it's easiest (and hardest) to find somewhere to play.

33 scorable cities in London.

#	City	Score /10	Centers
1	City of London	8.4	141
2	Merton	7.7	109
3	Kensington and Chelsea	7.6	77
4	Greenwich	7.5	125
5	Havering	7.5	71
6	Hammersmith and Fulham	7.4	231
7	Bromley	7.4	117
8	Croydon	7.4	116
9	Harrow	7.3	91
10	Hounslow	7.3	80
11	Richmond upon Thames	7.2	122
12	Enfield	7.2	112
13	Waltham Forest	7.2	100
14	Barking and Dagenham	7.2	80
15	Sutton	7.2	67
16	Hillingdon	7.2	62
17	Camden	7.1	119
18	City of Westminster	7.1	103
19	Brent	7.0	95
20	Islington	7.0	61
21	Hackney	7.0	51
22	Barnet	6.9	146
23	Lambeth	6.9	146
24	Kingston upon Thames	6.9	69
25	Lewisham	6.8	137
26	Wandsworth	6.8	136
27	Haringey	6.8	130
28	Southwark	6.8	111
29	Tower Hamlets	6.8	109
30	Ealing	6.7	113
31	Bexley	6.6	68
32	Redbridge	6.6	59
33	Newham	6.3	111

How do we calculate the score?

Variety (25%) — how many different sports the city covers.
Quality (20%) — richness of each center's information.
Activity (20%) — real user interest over the last 30 days.
Scale (15%) — number of centers in the city.
Density (10%) — centers per resident (dampened).
Courts (10%) — total capacity: number of courts.

Each section is measured as a percentile against the other cities in the United Kingdom and combined into the final score, on a 0-10 scale. Variety and density are measured with a uniform instrument (only sources with homogeneous national coverage) so that no city is favored by having a more complete open catalog. We only score cities with population data and a presence in those sources.