Newport
TownTown in Telford and Wrekin, West Midlands.
Newport is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newport 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 48% of people in Newport live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newport compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newport safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newport at a rate of 48.9 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, 74 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newport.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (376), other crime (109) and anti-social behaviour (93).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newport was 51.5 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 Newport, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newport has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- 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 Newport
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telford and Wrekin 001A | 1,409 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.3% |
| Telford and Wrekin 001B | 1,340 | 15.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Telford and Wrekin 001C | 1,722 | 41.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.9% |
| Telford and Wrekin 001D | 1,592 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 84.0% |
| Telford and Wrekin 002A | 1,804 | 61.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 74.7% |
| Telford and Wrekin 003A | 1,602 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.0% |
| Telford and Wrekin 003B | 1,533 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.0% |
| Telford and Wrekin 003C | 2,091 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.8% |
| Telford and Wrekin 003D | 1,768 | 140.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 69.2% |
Your MP
- Mark PritchardConservativeMP for The Wrekin
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 Newport1
Middle areas in Newport2
Towns near Newport6
Newport in brief
Newport is a town in Telford and Wrekin, West Midlands.
About 14,675 people lived in Newport in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £279,000 in 2025 across 217 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newport was £279,000 in 2025.
Newport had 14,191 usual residents at the census.
About 48% of people in Newport live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newport, 88.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.