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Newark-on-Trent

Town

Town in Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands.

Newark-on-Trent is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newark-on-Trent 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 3% of people in Newark-on-Trent live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£190,000
Joint 180th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
29,755
371st most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
3%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
96.8%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Newark-on-Trent compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

Newark-on-TrentMiddle
Median sale price105 towns, East Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East Midlands105 areas from £150,000 to £399,000. The middle area is £237,500. Newark-on-Trent is £190,000.
£190,000joint 13th cheapest
Population105 towns, East Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 7,633 to 406,612. The middle area is 16,271. Newark-on-Trent is 29,755.
29,75528th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares105 towns, East Midlands · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 60.0%. Newark-on-Trent is 3.0%.
3%21st fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 58.9% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.9%. Newark-on-Trent is 96.8%.
96.8%42nd highest

Is Newark-on-Trent safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newark-on-Trent at a rate of 147.4 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, 366 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newark-on-Trent.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,357), anti-social behaviour (790) and other crime (772).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newark-on-Trent was 160.9 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 Newark-on-Trent, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newark-on-Trent has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Newark-on-Trent

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Newark and Sherwood 007A1,944114.3 per 1,000498.3%
Newark and Sherwood 007B1,444160.1 per 1,000396.1%
Newark and Sherwood 007C1,55277.6 per 1,000498.9%
Newark and Sherwood 007D1,70075.4 per 1,000497.0%
Newark and Sherwood 007E1,20684.6 per 1,000798.9%
Newark and Sherwood 007F2,190556.9 per 1,000297.3%
Newark and Sherwood 007G1,651317.2 per 1,000185.6%
Newark and Sherwood 009A2,73535.0 per 1,000998.3%
Newark and Sherwood 009B1,95148.7 per 1,000796.6%
Newark and Sherwood 009C1,47572.5 per 1,0006100.0%
Newark and Sherwood 009D1,623106.3 per 1,0002100.0%
Newark and Sherwood 009E1,875312.5 per 1,000391.9%
Newark and Sherwood 010A1,55182.7 per 1,000699.3%
Newark and Sherwood 010B1,394117.7 per 1,000898.7%
Newark and Sherwood 010C1,53872.2 per 1,000299.5%
Newark and Sherwood 010D2,01190.8 per 1,0002100.0%
Newark and Sherwood 010E1,72298.1 per 1,0001100.0%

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Postcode districts covering Newark-on-Trent1

Middle areas in Newark-on-Trent3

Towns near Newark-on-Trent6

Newark-on-Trent in brief

Newark-on-Trent is a town in Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands.

About 30,878 people lived in Newark-on-Trent in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £190,000 in 2025 across 469 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 147.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Newark-on-Trent was £190,000 in 2025.

Newark-on-Trent had 29,755 usual residents at the census.

About 3% of people in Newark-on-Trent live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Newark-on-Trent, 96.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.