Total repossessions by county court bailiffs in London boroughs (2024)
Last updated: April 2025
Next update: June 2025
What’s this?
This indicator shows the number of repossessions and evictions per 1,000 people, in each London borough. The most recent data reflects four quarters, up to Q4 of 2024. However, since evictions were paused during the pandemic, we have retained the 2019 data for reference.
What does it tell us?
In 2024, the rate of repossessions in most boroughs has returned to or overtaken the pre-pandemic rate from 2019. In 15 boroughs the rate is now higher than in 2019.
The highest rates of repossessions were recorded in Newham, with 6.15 repossessions per 1,000 households and Enfield with 4.64 per 1,000 households. Newham had one of the highest rates of repossessions before the pandemic as well, with 4.50 repossessions per 1,000 respectively in 2019. The lowest rates of repossessions in 2024 were recorded in Richmond-upon-Thames ( (0.85 per 1,000 households) And Camden (0.86 per 1,000 households). Camden also had one of the lowest repossession rates in 2019.
The average repossession rate in London in 204 (2.61 per 1,000 households) was more than double the average for the rest of England (1.07 per 1,000 households). Almost all London boroughs had higher repossession rates than the average for the rest of England, with the exception of Bromley, Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond-upon-Thames and Camden.
Repossessions per 1,000 households (2024)
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