Newcastle-under-Lyme
TownTown in Newcastle-under-Lyme, West Midlands.
Newcastle-under-Lyme is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 63% of people in Newcastle-under-Lyme live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newcastle-under-Lyme compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newcastle-under-Lyme safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newcastle-under-Lyme at a rate of 103.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 671 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,263), anti-social behaviour (1,546) and other crime (1,423).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newcastle-under-Lyme was 95.7 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newcastle-under-Lyme has no single figure. Of its 49 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 7 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 004A | 1,431 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.5% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 004B | 1,349 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.3% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 004C | 1,478 | 70.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.6% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 004D | 1,290 | 29.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.4% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 006A | 1,527 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.2% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 006B | 1,672 | 131.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 006C | 1,472 | 56.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 006D | 1,463 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.3% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 006E | 1,733 | 67.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.9% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 007A | 1,496 | 146.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.2% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 007B | 1,304 | 181.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.9% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 007C | 1,470 | 136.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.4% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 007D | 1,579 | 187.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.2% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 007E | 1,381 | 148.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 008A | 1,380 | 63.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 008B | 1,228 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.4% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 008C | 1,346 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 008D | 1,589 | 98.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.8% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 008E | 1,869 | 172.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.6% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 009A | 1,480 | 42.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 009B | 1,640 | 45.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.6% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 009C | 1,368 | 69.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.4% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 009D | 1,336 | 29.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 009E | 1,154 | 43.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.3% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 010A | 1,678 | 97.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 010B | 1,851 | 141.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.2% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 010C | 1,248 | 94.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 010D | 1,644 | 140.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 010E | 2,057 | 93.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.7% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 010F | 1,529 | 77.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.4% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 011A | 1,795 | 176.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.6% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 011B | 1,653 | 79.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.4% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 011C | 1,685 | 291.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 54.5% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 011D | 1,413 | 218.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.2% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 011E | 1,802 | 565.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 69.5% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 012B | 2,588 | 83.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.1% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 012C | 1,810 | 71.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.9% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 014A | 1,626 | 67.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.7% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 014B | 1,603 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.4% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 014C | 1,515 | 104.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.7% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 014D | 1,497 | 53.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 014E | 1,352 | 30.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 014F | 1,436 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 015B | 1,162 | 17.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 015C | 1,374 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 015E | 1,485 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.5% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 015F | 1,449 | 19.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 015G | 1,496 | 16.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.4% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme 015H | 2,447 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.3% |
Your MP
- Adam JogeeLabourMP for Newcastle-under-Lyme
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 Newcastle-under-Lyme1
Middle areas in Newcastle-under-Lyme10
Towns near Newcastle-under-Lyme6
Newcastle-under-Lyme in brief
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a town in Newcastle-under-Lyme, West Midlands.
About 79,670 people lived in Newcastle-under-Lyme in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 1,057 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 103.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newcastle-under-Lyme was £200,000 in 2025.
Newcastle-under-Lyme had 76,511 usual residents at the census.
About 63% of people in Newcastle-under-Lyme live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newcastle-under-Lyme, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.