Newton-le-Willows East
WardEast St. Helens. About 13,070 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 7.5 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 1% of people in Newton-le-Willows East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newton-le-Willows East compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newton-le-Willows East safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newton-le-Willows East at a rate of 75.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 94.3 per 1,000 people across St. Helens.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 69 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newton-le-Willows East.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (456), other crime (190) and criminal damage and arson (71).
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.
Figures for the whole of St. Helens
These figures are published for the whole of St. Helens, not for each ward, so they describe all of St. Helens and not Newton-le-Willows East alone. See St. Helens
Newton-le-Willows East in brief
Newton-le-Willows East had 12,569 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Newton-le-Willows East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newton-le-Willows East, 97.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Newton-le-Willows East, 3.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.