Newhaven
TownTown in Lewes, South East.
Newhaven is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newhaven 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 100% of people in Newhaven live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newhaven compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newhaven safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newhaven at a rate of 139.0 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, 182 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newhaven.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (639), anti-social behaviour (443) and other crime (321).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newhaven was 112.3 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 Newhaven, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newhaven has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Newhaven
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewes 004D | 1,552 | 74.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 53.8% |
| Lewes 008A | 1,929 | 211.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 75.5% |
| Lewes 008B | 1,505 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Lewes 008C | 1,506 | 192.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.4% |
| Lewes 008D | 1,681 | 136.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.9% |
| Lewes 009A | 2,130 | 129.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.1% |
| Lewes 009B | 1,462 | 225.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 86.0% |
| Lewes 009C | 1,324 | 69.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.0% |
| Lewes 009D | 1,156 | 113.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.9% |
Your MP
- James MacClearyLiberal DemocratMP for Lewes
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 Newhaven1
Middle areas in Newhaven2
Towns near Newhaven6
Newhaven in brief
Newhaven is a town in Lewes, South East.
About 13,588 people lived in Newhaven in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £295,000 in 2025 across 187 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 139.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newhaven was £295,000 in 2025.
Newhaven had 12,857 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Newhaven live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newhaven, 87.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.