Newbury
TownTown in West Berkshire, South East.
Newbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newbury 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 69% of people in Newbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newbury at a rate of 91.9 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, 378 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,413), other crime (754) and shoplifting (586).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newbury was 94.1 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 Newbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newbury has no single figure. Of its 27 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Newbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Berkshire 012A | 1,971 | 86.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 76.1% |
| West Berkshire 012B | 1,683 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 61.5% |
| West Berkshire 012C | 1,391 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.1% |
| West Berkshire 012D | 1,401 | 112.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.8% |
| West Berkshire 012E | 1,564 | 49.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| West Berkshire 013A | 2,217 | 85.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.0% |
| West Berkshire 013B | 1,851 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.1% |
| West Berkshire 013C | 1,430 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.1% |
| West Berkshire 013D | 1,480 | 32.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.8% |
| West Berkshire 019B | 1,484 | 216.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 50.8% |
| West Berkshire 019D | 2,405 | 111.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.3% |
| West Berkshire 019E | 1,585 | 60.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 56.2% |
| West Berkshire 019F | 1,764 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.6% |
| West Berkshire 019G | 1,663 | 55.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.7% |
| West Berkshire 019H | 1,171 | 196.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 49.9% |
| West Berkshire 019I | 1,106 | 588.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 61.0% |
| West Berkshire 020A | 1,519 | 56.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| West Berkshire 020B | 1,481 | 215.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.4% |
| West Berkshire 020C | 2,028 | 59.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.6% |
| West Berkshire 020D | 1,837 | 77.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 74.7% |
| West Berkshire 020E | 1,442 | 40.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.7% |
| West Berkshire 021A | 1,424 | 18.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.8% |
| West Berkshire 021B | 1,557 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| West Berkshire 021C | 1,903 | 21.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.5% |
| West Berkshire 021D | 1,625 | 45.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| West Berkshire 021E | 1,634 | 120.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 83.5% |
| West Berkshire 021F | 1,446 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.1% |
Your MP
- Mr Lee DillonLiberal DemocratMP for Newbury
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 Newbury2
Middle areas in Newbury5
Towns near Newbury6
Newbury in brief
Newbury is a town in West Berkshire, South East.
About 44,800 people lived in Newbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £350,000 in 2025 across 779 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 91.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newbury was £350,000 in 2025.
Newbury had 42,262 usual residents at the census.
About 69% of people in Newbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newbury, 83.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.