High street footfall continues to make a recovery, but still hasn't reached pre-pandemic levels.

That's according to the latest figures from the Ipsos Retail Traffic Index (RTI), which found that footfall in the week to April 24 was down only 12.8 per cent on 2019 in the non-food sector.

But the good news is footfall showed a big rise on the previous week - up as much as 14.3 per cent.

The figures also show that town centres are continuing to outperform cities, as reported by Retail Gazette. Footfall in city centres was down 12.3 per cent compared to 2019 and up 11.8 per cent week on week, while towns were down 9.5 per cent and up 15.5 per cent week on week.

Retail parks saw the smallest drop in footfall - down 7.1 per cent compared to 2019 and up 13.9 per cent week on week. Shopping centres saw the biggest drop since 2019 - at 14.4 per cent - but also the biggest weekly rise at 16.3 per cent. On average, high streets were down 13.8 per cent compared to 2019 and up 10 per cent on the week.

The region with the lowest fall in footfall is Northern England, where store visits were down by 10.6 per cent against 2019, while the Midlands is struggling the most, with footfall down 15.5 per cent on 2019.