Almost all top 100 theft hotspots in the country are in London, according to Stark data that show how brutal thieves are unbridled by the capital.
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Thefts are the most widespread in a single neighborhood that runs through Oxford Circus and in Soho from Bond Street, strewn with high-end fashion boutiques. More than 7,220 thefts were included in that sector in 2024.
According to our analysis, presented on an interactive map below, this corresponds to a percentage of 3,167 thefts per 1,000 inhabitants – most of all almost 36,000 neighborhoods in England and Wales.
A neighboring zone, which includes the eastern part of Oxford Street and extends by East Marylebone in the north of Tottenham Court Road, was second (2,837 thefts per 1,000 people).
Tourists and commuters have struck smartphones in broad daylight, stolen bags in pubs and valuables of closed cars. Crooks have received a 'license to steal' by police in activity, say critics.
With the help of official crime figures collected by police services, the maps break the crime percentages by local neighborhoods-sized 'lower layer of superoutput areas' (LSOAS)-from around 1,000 to 2,000 people.
Each is assessed by offenses per 1,000 population, so that you can see exactly where your area is on thefts.
To find your district, simply select your local police from the drop -down list and Zoom so where you want to search.
Neighborhoods are mentioned by the electoral department within an authority, which means that bordering areas with the same name can appear, but have different statistics. That's because every department can have countless LSOAs.
The LSOA including Central Oxford Street, technically called E05013808, which was at the top of the charts, is located in the western neighborhood of Westminster Council.
However, there are six authorities of 'West End' on our map in Central London.
By tapping or floating the area on the map, you can also see the total number of fixed thefts, as well as the crime density (reports per square miles).
The statistics include all alleged reported crimes and receive a crime number, regardless of the outcome of any investigation. The figures only contain 'theft of the person' as bicycle fabrics and other thefts are recorded separately.
There are no data available for Greater Manchester Police because it has not updated its figures since July 2019.
Our analysis also excludes crimes committed on trains or train stations because they are treated by the British transport police instead of the local force.
Last September the video caught a brutal phone on an e-bike in broad daylight in Oxford Street in Oxford Street Stal.
Images filmed by an internet streamer showed the woman who was close to a tube output on her way to work at her phone, before the thief sainted and picked up the phone before he escaped.
Moment The Bicycle Thief picks up the phone on his e-bike near Oxford Circus Tube Station
The neighborhood with Leicester Square and Covent Garden is in third place, with 4,356 thefts reported to the police last year, a rate of 2,398.
Other areas of London with high theft prices are the area for Stratford International Station (947 or 591 per 1,000), the Strand and Temple Area (1,221 or 570 per 1,000), Camden Town and Market (746 or 494 per 1,000) and the Borough/London Bridge area (900 or 434).
Thefts in the capital reached a record high of more than 450,000 last year under Mayor Sadiq Khan, according to data from Home Office.
After new data this week, this showed that thefts of mobile phones in the capital have tripled over the past four years.
Last year, more than 70,000 telephones were stolen in the streets of London-Vaak by gang members on e-bikes and scooters who then sell for parts on the stolen technology to China and Nigeria.
The crime epidemic is assumed that the costs of British consumers no less than £ 70 million a year.
The data, from a FOI request to the with Police, is considered an important underestimation of the true scale of the problem because it only includes thefts reported to the Force.
Celebrities such as Lady Victoria Hervey and Kym Marsh have stolen their phones in the capital.
Lady Hervey told how her phone was taken in Pimlico after leaving a London Fashion Week event. She said a man on an e-bike called past the device from her hands.
Earlier this week, Marsh told Morning Live how she had stolen her phone two weeks ago at Buckingham Palace Road.
She said: 'It is good and scary to happen to you, you walk on a road and then suddenly something has been taken out of your hand.
“And that was about fourteen days ago that mine was taken. But luckily I was fine.
“I felt really vulnerable, I was really shaken. I wanted to get help right away, but of course it is not that easy if you don't have your phone. '
She then started sharing her destruction when losing messages sent to her father for her father, and added that she will never get [them] back'.
The efforts made to raise his reaction to the phone from the phone, and have increased the officers' patrols in the hardest areas.
Last month the Force arrested 230 people and grabbed 1,000 devices in a Blitz of a week.
More than 70,000 telephones were grown by London in the streets of London in 2024 alone, from an estimated 100,000 thefts in the United Kingdom
Thieves have followed racing over the capital, although 40 percent of thefts take place in just one town
Outside of London, the highest theft hotspot is the area that includes New Street Station in the capital of West Midlands of Birmingham.
The neighborhood, which also includes Victoria Square, saw 267 thefts, or 216 per 1,000 inhabitants last year.
The part of the city center of Sheffield, which includes the town hall, saw 207 robbed, 130 per 1,000 inhabitants, last year.
The police have been established to get new powers to introduce real estate without an order such as following apps such as 'Find My Phone' show stolen gadgets are inside.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said last month that the move was aimed at giving officers the opportunity to act quickly against phone natchers.
The 'guaranteed powers of arrival' can also be used to grasp other high -quality items that are equipped with tracking devices, such as bicycles and will be included in the flagship crime of Labor and the police, published today.
The police must currently obtain an order to look for stolen goods.
Sources from home office said that there would be an 'expectation' that the police would fully use the new powers.
However, it is unclear whether they can successfully be used in blocks of flats.
Officers need sufficient evidence that stolen goods are in a certain home, and 'geolocation' devices may not offer information that is accurate enough.
Mrs. Cooper said at the time: 'It is extremely frustrating for victims when they can see exactly where their stolen phone has gone, but nothing has been done.
“That is why we are determined to give the police the powers they need to move quickly to combat these crimes that destroy our communities.”
