Newbridge
TownTown in Caerphilly, Wales.
Newbridge is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newbridge 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 92% of people in Newbridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newbridge compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newbridge safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newbridge at a rate of 93.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 57 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newbridge.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (279), other crime (154) and anti-social behaviour (133).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newbridge was 100.6 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 Newbridge, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newbridge has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Newbridge
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caerphilly 006A | 1,189 | 36.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.2% |
| Caerphilly 006D | 1,407 | 95.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 82.5% |
| Caerphilly 010B | 1,472 | 139.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.1% |
| Caerphilly 010C | 1,541 | 113.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.9% |
| Caerphilly 010D | 1,440 | 96.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.1% |
Your MP
- Ruth JonesLabourMP for Newport West and Islwyn
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 Newbridge1
Middle areas in Newbridge1
Towns near Newbridge6
Newbridge in brief
Newbridge is a town in Caerphilly, Wales.
About 7,651 people lived in Newbridge in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £155,500 in 2025 across 104 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 93.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newbridge was £155,500 in 2025.
Newbridge had 7,582 usual residents at the census.
About 92% of people in Newbridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newbridge, 92.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.