Newquay
TownTown in Cornwall, South West.
Newquay is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newquay 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 100% of people in Newquay live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newquay compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newquay safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newquay at a rate of 106.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across South West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 287 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newquay.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,208), other crime (491) and anti-social behaviour (370).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newquay was 113.5 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 Newquay, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newquay has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Newquay
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall 018A | 1,906 | 83.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 26.0% |
| Cornwall 018D | 1,628 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 71.1% |
| Cornwall 018E | 1,323 | 68.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 64.2% |
| Cornwall 018F | 1,502 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.8% |
| Cornwall 018G | 1,541 | 104.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.3% |
| Cornwall 020A | 2,139 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 73.2% |
| Cornwall 020B | 1,678 | 389.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.2% |
| Cornwall 020C | 2,087 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 51.3% |
| Cornwall 021A | 1,574 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 17.8% |
| Cornwall 021B | 1,812 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 28.4% |
| Cornwall 021C | 1,607 | 342.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 71.8% |
| Cornwall 021D | 1,596 | 72.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 41.6% |
| Cornwall 021E | 1,821 | 98.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 54.4% |
| Cornwall 021F | 1,665 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 34.4% |
Your MP
- Noah LawLabourMP for St Austell and Newquay
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 Newquay2
Middle areas in Newquay3
Towns near Newquay6
Newquay in brief
Newquay is a town in Cornwall, South West.
About 25,215 people lived in Newquay in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £315,000 in 2025 across 611 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 106.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newquay was £315,000 in 2025.
Newquay had 24,543 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Newquay live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newquay, 59.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.