New Mills
TownTown in High Peak, East Midlands.
New Mills is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for New Mills 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 New Mills live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How New Mills compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is New Mills safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in New Mills at a rate of 50.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.5 per 1,000 people across East Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 40 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in New Mills.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (235), other crime (91) and anti-social behaviour (56).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in New Mills was 58.8 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 New Mills, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so New Mills has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in New Mills
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Peak 005A | 1,563 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 89.1% |
| High Peak 005B | 1,154 | 28.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.9% |
| High Peak 005C | 1,469 | 57.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.2% |
| High Peak 006C | 1,501 | 64.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.3% |
| High Peak 006D | 1,413 | 61.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.2% |
| High Peak 006E | 1,114 | 55.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.8% |
Your MP
- Jon PearceLabourMP for High Peak
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 New Mills1
Middle areas in New Mills2
Towns near New Mills6
New Mills in brief
New Mills is a town in High Peak, East Midlands.
About 9,132 people lived in New Mills in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £274,500 in 2025 across 202 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 50.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in New Mills was £274,500 in 2025.
New Mills had 9,195 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in New Mills live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In New Mills, 92.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.