Newton Aycliffe
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Newton Aycliffe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newton Aycliffe 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 1% of people in Newton Aycliffe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newton Aycliffe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newton Aycliffe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newton Aycliffe at a rate of 138.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 115.6 per 1,000 people across North East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 336 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newton Aycliffe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,297), anti-social behaviour (840) and other crime (512).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newton Aycliffe was 132.2 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 Aycliffe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newton Aycliffe has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Newton Aycliffe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 060A | 1,196 | 76.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| County Durham 060B | 1,316 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.6% |
| County Durham 060C | 1,268 | 78.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 81.0% |
| County Durham 060D | 1,161 | 63.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.4% |
| County Durham 060E | 2,432 | 77.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| County Durham 060F | 1,342 | 59.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.5% |
| County Durham 061A | 1,322 | 260.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| County Durham 061B | 1,547 | 144.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.3% |
| County Durham 061C | 1,457 | 219.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.2% |
| County Durham 061D | 1,281 | 129.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.3% |
| County Durham 062A | 1,733 | 107.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.5% |
| County Durham 062B | 1,344 | 241.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.8% |
| County Durham 062C | 1,215 | 103.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.9% |
| County Durham 062D | 1,244 | 109.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| County Durham 063A | 1,453 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.3% |
| County Durham 063B | 1,500 | 124.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 40.8% |
| County Durham 063C | 1,448 | 283.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.1% |
| County Durham 063D | 1,354 | 199.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.2% |
Your MP
- Alan StricklandLabourMP for Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Newton Aycliffe1
Middle areas in Newton Aycliffe4
Towns near Newton Aycliffe6
Newton Aycliffe in brief
Newton Aycliffe is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 26,484 people lived in Newton Aycliffe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £145,000 in 2025 across 321 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 138.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newton Aycliffe was £145,000 in 2025.
Newton Aycliffe had 25,760 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Newton Aycliffe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newton Aycliffe, 89.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.