Newtown
TownTown in Powys, Wales.
Newtown is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Newtown 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 Newtown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Newtown compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Newtown safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Newtown at a rate of 158.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 151 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Newtown.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (851), other crime (289) and criminal damage and arson (179).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Newtown was 179.1 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 Newtown, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Newtown has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Newtown
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powys 008A | 2,105 | 312.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.2% |
| Powys 008B | 2,199 | 41.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 80.0% |
| Powys 008C | 1,893 | 29.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.1% |
| Powys 009A | 1,873 | 171.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Powys 009B | 1,453 | 187.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.5% |
| Powys 009C | 1,839 | 180.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 85.8% |
Your MP
- Steve WitherdenLabourMP for Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr
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 Newtown1
Middle areas in Newtown2
Newtown in brief
Newtown is a town in Powys, Wales.
About 11,028 people lived in Newtown in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £199,000 in 2025 across 112 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 158.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Newtown was £199,000 in 2025.
Newtown had 10,882 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Newtown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Newtown, 86.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.