Newmarket
TownTown in West Suffolk and East Cambridgeshire, East of England.
Newmarket is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newmarket 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 0% of people in Newmarket live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newmarket compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newmarket safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newmarket at a rate of 75.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 123 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newmarket.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (621), other crime (295) and shoplifting (170).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newmarket was 74.5 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 Newmarket, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newmarket has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Newmarket
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Cambridgeshire 011B | 1,082 | 12.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| East Cambridgeshire 011D | 1,657 | 20.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 59.8% |
| West Suffolk 008B | 1,353 | 117.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.6% |
| West Suffolk 008C | 1,751 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.6% |
| West Suffolk 008D | 1,448 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| West Suffolk 008E | 1,204 | 176.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 67.6% |
| West Suffolk 008F | 1,259 | 78.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 81.1% |
| West Suffolk 015A | 1,854 | 148.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.7% |
| West Suffolk 015B | 1,539 | 73.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.8% |
| West Suffolk 015C | 1,766 | 92.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.9% |
| West Suffolk 015D | 1,342 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.4% |
| West Suffolk 015E | 1,220 | 64.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.1% |
| West Suffolk 015F | 2,032 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.8% |
Your MP
- Nick TimothyConservativeMP for West Suffolk
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Newmarket sits in2
Postcode districts covering Newmarket1
Middle areas in Newmarket2
Towns near Newmarket6
Newmarket in brief
Newmarket is a town in West Suffolk and East Cambridgeshire, East of England.
About 19,872 people lived in Newmarket in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £284,000 in 2025 across 294 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 75.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newmarket was £284,000 in 2025.
Newmarket had 18,857 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Newmarket live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newmarket, 91.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.