New Milton
TownTown in New Forest, South East.
New Milton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for New Milton 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 91% of people in New Milton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How New Milton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is New Milton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in New Milton at a rate of 88.4 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, 99 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in New Milton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (413), other crime (180) and shoplifting (136).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in New Milton was 89.1 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 Milton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so New Milton has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in New Milton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Forest 018B | 1,180 | 42.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.1% |
| New Forest 020B | 1,472 | 167.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 75.6% |
| New Forest 020C | 1,394 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 83.0% |
| New Forest 020D | 1,329 | 115.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 60.9% |
| New Forest 021C | 1,802 | 101.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 62.9% |
| New Forest 021D | 1,505 | 39.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 68.8% |
| New Forest 021E | 1,741 | 150.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 34.0% |
Your MP
- Sir Desmond SwayneConservativeMP for New Forest 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 New Milton1
Middle areas in New Milton2
Towns near New Milton6
New Milton in brief
New Milton is a town in New Forest, South East.
About 11,891 people lived in New Milton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £318,000 in 2025 across 229 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 88.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in New Milton was £318,000 in 2025.
New Milton had 11,872 usual residents at the census.
About 91% of people in New Milton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In New Milton, 68.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.