Jewellery worth £373 million robbed from London since 2018 – London is the UK’s jewellery theft capital

by London-TV in Business
London is home to some of the richest people in the UK, it’s no wonder the capital city tops the UK’s list for experiencing the most high value jewellery thefts in the entire country.
Jewellerybox sent FOI requests to police forces in of the 30 biggest towns and cities in the UK for the number of jewellery thefts as well as the value of these thefts in the last three years:
The top 10 London boroughs with the most jewellery thefts in the last 3 years:

Rank

Borough

Cases in 2018

Cases in 2019

Cases in 2020

Total Number of Cases

1

Westminster

2,970

3,341

1,507

7,818

2

Kensington and Chelsea

1,665

1,905

967

4,537

3

Barnet

2,066

1,630

907

4,603

4

Croydon

1,383

1,216

758

3,357

5

Bromley

1,512

1,277

687

3,476

6

Camden

1,346

1,224

684

3,254

7

Enfield

1,194

1,182

679

3,055

8

Brent

1,528

1,050

607

3,185

9

Ealing

1,240

1,194

590

3,024

10

Hammersmith and Fulham

959

884

583

2,426
According to the data:

  • More jewellery was robbed in London than anywhere else in the country – robberies of jewellery in London between 2018 and 2020 are valued at  £373 million.

  • The top two London boroughs for jewellery theft in 2020 were Westminster, with just over 1,500 thefts in and Kensington and Chelsea with 967 – both home to many of London’s ultra-rich.

  • Of 32 boroughs in London, jewellery worth over £123 million was robbed in 2018 and £162 million in 2019, however the figure dropped in 2020 to £87.5 million.

The study also reveals that:
  • Slightly under £400 million worth of jewellery was stolen in the UK between 2018 and 2020!

  • The coronavirus has led to a decline in the number of jewellery thefts in every location that this study received data for. However, it appears that jewellery crime may have been decreasing since before the pandemic, with numbers dropping in over 80% of the areas between 2018 and 2019.