Miami Jewelry District Statistics

Updated November 2026. By Samuel Madrid, founder of Miami The Jeweler.

Downtown Miami has been a jewelry hub since the 1960s. The numbers back that up: Miami-Dade County has more jewelry stores and jewelry wholesalers than any U.S. county except Los Angeles County and Manhattan. This page pulls together federal business data and published facts about the district, with the source and year for each figure.

Key statistics

  • Miami-Dade County had 459 jewelry stores with paid employees in 2023, the third most of any U.S. county (U.S. Census Bureau).
  • It also had 251 jewelry, watch, precious stone and precious metal wholesalers, again third in the country, behind Manhattan and Los Angeles County.
  • Miami-Dade holds about 1 in 4 of Florida's jewelry stores and about 2 in 5 of its jewelry wholesalers.
  • Jewelry stores in Miami-Dade employed 1,994 people and paid $144.5 million in annual payroll in 2023.
  • 68% of Miami-Dade jewelry stores had fewer than five employees.
  • The Seybold Building, at 36 NE First St, reports more than 300 jewelers on 10 floors in 166,000 square feet.

How Miami-Dade compares with other counties

The Census Bureau's County Business Patterns counts every business location with paid employees, by industry. These are 2023 figures, the latest available.

County Jewelry stores Jewelry wholesalers Combined
Los Angeles County, CA 902 962 1,864
New York County (Manhattan), NY 668 1,705 2,373
Miami-Dade County, FL 459 251 710
Cook County (Chicago), IL 364 140 504

Manhattan, home to New York's Diamond District, leads on wholesale. Los Angeles leads on stores. Miami-Dade ranks third on both counts and third combined.

Miami-Dade also had 34 jewelry and silverware manufacturing locations in 2023, tied with Cook County for fourth among U.S. counties.

Miami-Dade jewelry businesses in detail (2023)

Industry Locations Employees Annual payroll Share with fewer than 5 employees
Jewelry stores 459 1,994 $144.5 million 68%
Jewelry, watch, precious stone and precious metal wholesalers 251 1,221 $90.4 million 77%
Jewelry and silverware manufacturing 34 84 $3.4 million 76%

Small shops dominate. Most locations in all three groups have fewer than five employees. That fits how the Seybold Building describes its own tenants: jewelry and watch merchants, diamond cutters, repair shops and specialty gem shops.

Miami-Dade's share of Florida and U.S. jewelry businesses

Industry Miami-Dade Florida United States Miami-Dade share of Florida
Jewelry stores 459 1,868 19,897 25%
Jewelry wholesalers 251 633 6,949 40%
Jewelry and silverware manufacturing 34 110 1,844 31%

Miami-Dade alone holds about 2.3% of all U.S. jewelry store locations.

These Census counts leave out businesses with no paid employees. Broader estimates run higher: IBISWorld, which also counts online and mail-order sellers, estimates 8,968 jewelry store locations and 16,067 workers in Florida in 2026.

The Seybold Building

Fact Figure Source
Address 36 NE First St, Miami, FL 33132 Seybold Building
Size 166,000 square feet Seybold Building
Floors 10 Seybold Building
Jewelers More than 300 Seybold Building
Historic status Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; part of the Downtown Miami Historic District Seybold Building; Time Out Miami
How it describes itself The second-largest diamond and jewelry center in the United States Seybold Building (the building's own claim)

Baker John Seybold gave the building its name. Its upper floors once held doctors and law offices. Jewelers began moving in during the 1960s, and a wave of Cuban jewelers opened shops there in the 1980s. The building's own history calls it the largest jewelry building in Florida.

Greater Miami's tourism bureau places the district along Flagler Street and the surrounding blocks, where jewelers, diamond dealers and watch specialists have worked for decades.

Where Miami The Jeweler fits

This section describes Miami The Jeweler, not industry data.

Miami The Jeweler's showroom sits in the downtown jewelry district at 22 NE First St, Suite 225. Samuel Madrid founded the brand in 2024, and it has sold more than 3,000 pieces since. Our core collection sets VVS1, D-color moissanite in 925 sterling silver, and our diamond line sets natural and lab-grown diamonds in solid 10K, 14K or 18K gold. You can see both in person at the showroom or shop online.

How we built this page

  • County, state and national business counts come from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns, using industry codes 448310 (jewelry stores), 423940 (jewelry, watch, precious stone and precious metal merchant wholesalers) and 339910 (jewelry and silverware manufacturing). We downloaded the files directly from the Census Bureau and ran the rankings ourselves.
  • County Business Patterns counts locations with paid employees. It doesn't count self-employed jewelers without staff, and it can't isolate the downtown district from the rest of the county.
  • No public agency publishes an official count of jewelers in the downtown district itself. The Seybold Building's figures come from the building.
  • Figures checked November 9, 2026.

Cite this page

Miami The Jeweler. "Miami Jewelry District Statistics." miamithejeweler.com/pages/miami-jewelry-district-statistics. Updated November 2026.

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Miami's jewelry district? Downtown Miami, along Flagler Street and NE First Street. The Seybold Building at 36 NE First St sits at its center.

How many jewelers are in Miami's jewelry district? No agency publishes an official count for the district. The Seybold Building alone reports more than 300 jewelers. Countywide, Miami-Dade had 459 jewelry stores and 251 jewelry wholesalers with paid employees in 2023.

Is Miami's jewelry district the second largest in the U.S.? The Seybold Building describes itself as the second-largest diamond and jewelry center in the United States. Census data ranks Miami-Dade County third among U.S. counties for both jewelry stores and jewelry wholesalers, behind Los Angeles County and Manhattan.

How many jewelry stores are in Florida? Florida had 1,868 jewelry stores with paid employees in 2023 (U.S. Census Bureau). IBISWorld's broader count, which includes online and mail-order sellers, estimates 8,968 locations in 2026.

What share of Florida's jewelry businesses are in Miami-Dade? About 25% of Florida's jewelry stores and 40% of its jewelry wholesalers were in Miami-Dade County in 2023.

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