Crime in Newport: statistics, rates and trends

Violence and sexual offences (7,913), anti-social behaviour (4,116) and public order (2,393) made up 62% of all recorded crime. Its crime rate ranks 24th of the 302 districts covered by this site (1 = highest), in the highest tenth.

Recorded crime in Newport peaked in the year to August 2024 (23,552 crimes) and was lowest in the year to August 2022 (19,695). Between the years to August 2018 and 2026 it rose 14%, while across England and Wales it fell 4%.

Month by month

Compared with England and Wales, Newport recorded notably more public order (2.1 times the national rate), criminal damage and arson (71% above the national rate) and other crime (62% above the national rate), and notably less theft from the person (74% below). On the year before, possession of weapons rose from 186 to 254 and burglary rose from 650 to 835, while bicycle theft fell from 160 to 113 and theft from the person fell from 101 to 74.

What each category covers: crime categories.

18,370 crimes, excluding fraud, were recorded by the police in Newport in the year ending March 2026, according to the Home Office's police recorded crime statistics. That is 109.4 per 1,000 residents, higher than the England and Wales rate of 83.2. The total was down 5% on the year ending March 2025 (19,397), against a fall of 2% across England and Wales. Among the 272 districts of England and Wales with a figure for that year, Newport had the 29th highest rate (the street-level ranking above is among the 302 districts with street-level pages on this site, over the 12 months to August 2026).

Offences recorded in Newport, the year ending March 2026

The largest category was violence without injury, with 2,791 offences (15% of the total). Relative to England and Wales, rates were highest for arson (3.4 times the national rate), public order offences (2.0 times the national rate) and miscellaneous crimes against society (1.7 times the national rate). Rates were lowest relative to the national rate for theft from the person (0.27 times) and robbery of business property (0.56 times).

The largest rises on the year were in arson (+27%) and possession of weapons (+12%). The largest falls were in bicycle theft (−24%) and non-residential burglary (−22%). Robbery of business property and shoplifting are not compared with the year ending March 2025: from April 2025 the Home Office Counting Rules were clarified so that a theft from a shop in which violence is used or threatened against staff or anyone else is recorded as robbery of business property rather than shoplifting (ONS).

Recorded crime in Newport since the year ending March 2013

The chart shows police recorded crime per 1,000 residents in each year ending March from 2013 to 2026. Newport's rate was above the England and Wales rate in every one of those 14 years. Changes in how forces record crime move these figures as well as changes in crime (methodology).

Districts in the Gwent Police area, the year ending March 2026

Of the 5 districts in the Gwent Police area with a figure for the year ending March 2026, Newport had the 2nd highest rate.

Source: Home Office police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables (released 23 July 2026), gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Financial years, excluding fraud; how they differ from the street-level figures: methodology.

1 of the 8 nearest districts have a higher crime rate than Newport; the highest is Blaenau Gwent (148.5 per 1,000) and the lowest Vale of Glamorgan (73.1).

Of the 27 areas within Newport, Stow Hill had the highest crime rate (751.9 per 1,000) and Marshfield (Newport) the lowest (33.5), 22 times apart.

The 10 locations below account for 20% of the crime recorded in Newport over the 12 months to August 2026; the most were recorded at “Parking Area” (846).

Of the 19,050 crimes in Newport with a recorded outcome, 28% ended with the investigation complete and no suspect identified, against 35% across England and Wales; 5.1% were awaiting a court outcome (England and Wales: 5.2%). The 4,116 anti-social behaviour reports have no outcome and are left out.

Newport has an estimated population of 167,899 (ONS, mid-2024). On the Census 2021 measures below it is close to England and Wales as a whole. On the Wales WIMD 2025, the small areas (LSOAs) that make up Newport average decile 5.1 (1 = most deprived), close to the middle.

Police-recorded crime from data.police.uk (September 2017 to August 2026), ONS population estimates and Census 2021. Definitions and limitations: methodology.