Newton Abbot
TownTown in Teignbridge, South West.
Newton Abbot is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newton Abbot 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 Newton Abbot live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newton Abbot compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newton Abbot safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newton Abbot at a rate of 84.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across South West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 278 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newton Abbot.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,195), other crime (388) and anti-social behaviour (318).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newton Abbot was 88.1 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 Newton Abbot, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newton Abbot has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 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 Newton Abbot
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teignbridge 012A | 1,261 | 54.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Teignbridge 012B | 1,420 | 30.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.9% |
| Teignbridge 012C | 1,403 | 26.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.9% |
| Teignbridge 012D | 2,086 | 55.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 86.9% |
| Teignbridge 013B | 1,483 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Teignbridge 013E | 1,915 | 34.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.3% |
| Teignbridge 013F | 1,772 | 49.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.2% |
| Teignbridge 014A | 1,588 | 108.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| Teignbridge 014B | 1,707 | 169.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.7% |
| Teignbridge 014C | 1,590 | 427.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 88.7% |
| Teignbridge 014D | 1,198 | 82.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Teignbridge 015A | 1,625 | 127.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 85.9% |
| Teignbridge 015B | 1,269 | 91.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.1% |
| Teignbridge 015C | 1,506 | 38.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.9% |
| Teignbridge 015D | 1,427 | 96.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.5% |
| Teignbridge 016A | 1,266 | 81.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Teignbridge 016B | 1,436 | 39.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Teignbridge 016C | 1,552 | 40.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.9% |
| Teignbridge 016D | 1,303 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
Your MP
- Martin WrigleyLiberal DemocratMP for Newton Abbot
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 Newton Abbot1
Middle areas in Newton Abbot5
Towns near Newton Abbot6
Newton Abbot in brief
Newton Abbot is a town in Teignbridge, South West.
About 30,572 people lived in Newton Abbot in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £255,000 in 2025 across 493 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 84.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newton Abbot was £255,000 in 2025.
Newton Abbot had 29,650 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Newton Abbot live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newton Abbot, 93.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.