Newton-le-Willows
TownTown in St. Helens, North West.
Newton-le-Willows is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newton-le-Willows 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 Newton-le-Willows live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newton-le-Willows compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newton-le-Willows safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newton-le-Willows at a rate of 78.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 176 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newton-le-Willows.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (880), other crime (381) and shoplifting (211).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newton-le-Willows was 87.1 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-le-Willows, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newton-le-Willows has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Newton-le-Willows
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Helens 010A | 1,719 | 46.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| St. Helens 010B | 2,106 | 20.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| St. Helens 010C | 1,518 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| St. Helens 010D | 1,571 | 82.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.3% |
| St. Helens 013A | 1,646 | 275.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.9% |
| St. Helens 013B | 1,914 | 64.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.5% |
| St. Helens 013D | 1,290 | 39.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| St. Helens 013E | 1,714 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.3% |
| St. Helens 015A | 1,526 | 61.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.3% |
| St. Helens 015B | 1,409 | 74.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| St. Helens 015C | 1,527 | 59.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| St. Helens 015D | 1,682 | 70.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.4% |
| St. Helens 015E | 1,536 | 110.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.4% |
| St. Helens 015F | 1,965 | 96.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.8% |
| St. Helens 015G | 2,240 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
Your MP
- David BainesLabourMP for St Helens North
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-le-Willows1
Middle areas in Newton-le-Willows3
Towns near Newton-le-Willows6
Newton-le-Willows in brief
Newton-le-Willows is a town in St. Helens, North West.
About 25,686 people lived in Newton-le-Willows in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £206,250 in 2025 across 324 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 78.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newton-le-Willows was £206,250 in 2025.
Newton-le-Willows had 24,651 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Newton-le-Willows live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newton-le-Willows, 97.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.