Newport
TownTown in Isle of Wight, South East.
Newport is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newport add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 43% of people in Newport live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newport compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newport safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newport at a rate of 130.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 277 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newport.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,515), other crime (613) and shoplifting (455).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newport was 131.8 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Newport, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newport has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Newport
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isle of Wight 008A | 1,496 | 101.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 72.9% |
| Isle of Wight 008B | 1,548 | 73.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.7% |
| Isle of Wight 008C | 2,273 | 116.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.5% |
| Isle of Wight 008D | 1,968 | 120.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 87.5% |
| Isle of Wight 008E | 1,981 | 196.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.4% |
| Isle of Wight 009A | 1,360 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.5% |
| Isle of Wight 009B | 1,254 | 207.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.4% |
| Isle of Wight 009C | 1,610 | 551.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.9% |
| Isle of Wight 009D | 1,418 | 82.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Isle of Wight 009E | 1,769 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.8% |
| Isle of Wight 011A | 1,783 | 73.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.8% |
| Isle of Wight 011B | 1,948 | 30.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Isle of Wight 011D | 1,410 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.4% |
| Isle of Wight 011E | 1,433 | 92.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.6% |
| Isle of Wight 011F | 1,528 | 249.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.7% |
| Isle of Wight 013C | 1,595 | 31.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 76.6% |
Your MP
- Richard QuigleyLabourMP for Isle of Wight West
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Newport1
Middle areas in Newport3
Towns near Newport6
Newport in brief
Newport is a town in Isle of Wight, South East.
About 26,585 people lived in Newport in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,000 in 2025 across 378 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 130.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newport was £225,000 in 2025.
Newport had 25,396 usual residents at the census.
About 43% of people in Newport live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newport, 91.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.