Set aside every Sunday-morning journey that resembles a weekday journey, and the map draws itself: down the Northern line from Kennington to South Wimbledon, with Vauxhall sending more people home than anywhere else.

London, 2 September 2026. More than 725,000 people enter London’s transport network between 6am and 10am every Sunday, and a new analysis of Transport for London’s own figures suggests that around 98,000 of those journeys are not going to work, to the shops or to church. They are going home.
Erobella analysed TfL’s NUMBAT dataset, which models entries at all 471 stations on the network in fifteen-minute intervals along with where each journey ends. For every station, the analysis compared where its Sunday-morning travellers went with where its weekday-morning travellers go, and set aside anything a normal weekday already explained. Of what remained, it counted only journeys ending at a residential station rather than an office, a shop, a hospital, an airport or a mainline terminus.

Clapham South tops the resulting table, with 9.6 per cent of all its Sunday journeys fitting the pattern, followed by Balham (9.4 per cent) and Tooting Bec (9.1 per cent). Seven of the top ten stations sit on the Northern line between Kennington and South Wimbledon, and an eighth, Vauxhall, is one stop away on the Victoria line.
Key findings:
725,139 people enter the network between 6am and 10am on a typical Sunday. 98,317 of those journeys match neither the station’s weekday pattern nor a workplace destination.
Clapham South leads London, with 9.6 per cent of all its Sunday journeys fitting the pattern, followed by Balham (9.4 per cent) and Tooting Bec (9.1 per cent).
Vauxhall records 2,209 such journeys every Sunday, the most of any station in London, along with 413 arrivals after 11pm the night before.
Clapham Junction, which is in Battersea, has the lowest share of any large residential station at 1.5 per cent.
Friday nights produce the same map: run the analysis on a Saturday morning and Tooting Bec, Clapham South and Balham are still the top three.
East London’s early risers were cleared. At Dagenham Heathway, East Ham and Barking, the Sunday-morning crowd travels to the same places as the weekday crowd (Canary Wharf, the West End and the Royal London Hospital), which is a shift, not a walk of shame.

A spokesperson for Erobella said: “Every Sunday morning there is a small city moving quietly across London in last night’s clothes, and TfL has been counting it all along. We took out everyone whose journey looked like a normal working day and everyone heading anywhere but home. What’s left runs down the Northern line and stops at every Clapham, which will surprise nobody who has ever lived there.”
Stations qualified for the league if they had at least 3,000 Sunday entries, at least 1,000 of them between 6am and 10am, were residential rather than workplaces, and received at least 100 arrivals after 11pm on Saturday night, on the grounds that you cannot leave a party you couldn’t get to. Belsize Park, which would otherwise have placed third, missed that last test by eight people.