Havering revealed to be one of the fittest London boroughs in a new study.

No matter how busy life in the capital gets, Londoners still love to fit a good workout or two into their hectic routine. 

To find out which boroughs of London are actually the fittest, the experts at Fitness First have conducted an extensive study that delves deep into what makes a borough fit. 

The top 5 fittest boroughs overall were:

1. Islington
2. Havering
3. Lambeth
4. Camden
5. Hammersmith and Fulham.

To create the list of the healthiest boroughs, data was gathered on the number of shops and restaurants listed as healthy on sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor. We then divided these numbers with the total number of shops and restaurants by borough to get a percentage.

We also incorporated Fitness First’s own gym membership data to get an idea of how active residents in each borough might be. We took the total populations of each borough according to the most recent government census and compared it with the number of Fitness First gym memberships in each borough to get a metric for gym members per 1,000 people.

Finally, we combined the Yelp and Tripadvisor data with Fitness First’s member data. We multiplied the health score percentage by the number of gym members per 1,000 people to get an overall health score between 0 and 3.

Islington is the overall healthiest borough in London (17.25%), worked out by the number of health food shops and restaurants in each borough divided by the total number of health food shops and healthy restaurants in the whole of London. It has the most health-food shops (7), restaurants (57) and gym memberships (11) combined, with Havering coming in at a close second. 

Lambeth has the highest gym membership score (39) as well as the third-highest shop score (11), landing third in the overall standings.