Newtown
WardNorth west Stockton-on-Tees. About 4,778 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.0 square kilometre.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Newtown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newtown compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newtown safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newtown at a rate of 220.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 144.1 per 1,000 people across Stockton-on-Tees.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 89 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newtown.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (356), other crime (164) and anti-social behaviour (148).
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 Stockton-on-Tees
These figures are published for the whole of Stockton-on-Tees, not for each ward, so they describe all of Stockton-on-Tees and not Newtown alone. See Stockton-on-Tees
Newtown in brief
Newtown had 4,485 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Newtown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newtown, 93.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Newtown, 8.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.