Twice a year we carry out walking count surveys to give us a picture of walking trends across the local area. The counts take place at around 100 locations from 6am to midnight in fair weather conditions, on a weekday and a day on the weekend in March and October. The survey locations were selected based on the Liveable Green Network, such as locations of interest or where change is occurring or expected. Visit the interactive map More information on walking count sites

Twice a year City of Sydney carry out walking count surveys to give us a picture of walking trends across the City of Sydney area. The counts take place at around 100 locations from 6am to midnight in fair weather conditions, on a weekday and a day on the weekend in March and October. The survey locations were selected based on the Liveable Green Network, such as locations of interest or where change is occurring or expected. API provides data in GeoJSON format. For more information visit https://data.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/datasets/318c979731e54cb187349d034e1defad_0/explore

For responsive design see our Automated Pedestrian Counts Dashboard. Our automated pedestrian counter trial has now come to an end. Please check back in the future for further updates. Automated counters were placed in busy areas of the CBD to assess performance. Data collection began in February 2020 and ended in June 2025, giving us a picture of impacts to pedestrian activity due to Covid-19 and the recovery. For more extensive data across the local area, please visit our Twice Yearly Walking Counts Dashboard. Data sets can be downloaded from City of Sydney Data hub. * Counter location A004 (Park Street) was counting approximately half of pedestrian activity from 03-July 2022 to 11 Nov 2022. Please use this data at your own discretion.

An index of pedestrian volumes tracking the long-term trends of neighborhood commercial corridors. Data is collected at 114 locations, including 100 on-street locations (primarily retail corridors), 13 East River and Harlem River bridge locations, and the Hudson River Greenway. Screenline sampling is conducted during May and September on the sidewalk, mid-block (or mid-bridge) on both sides of street where applicable. Pedestrian volumes at 50 sample locations around the City are combined to create the Pedestrian Volume Index for the Mayor’s Management Report. Click here for metadata - http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bi-annual-ped-count-readme.pdf

The City has conducted twice yearly intersection cycle counts at various sites in peak hours (6-9 am and 4-7 pm) on one day in March and October every year, since March 2010 (excluding March 2018). This data shows the total number of cyclists at the site during peak hours as well as individual survey hours.