Crime and Safety in Newport, Isle of Wight
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
Newport is the most dangerous medium-sized town in the Isle of Wight, and is the second most dangerous overall out of the Isle of Wight's 33 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Newport in 2026 is 106 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to the Isle of Wight's overall crime rate, coming in 56% higher than the Isle of Wight rate of 68 per 1,000 daytime population. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Newport is the 27th most dangerous medium-sized town, and the 485th most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
In April 2025, Newport had the worst crime rate in the Isle of Wight for theft from the person, with 3 crimes reported and a crime rate of 0.11 per 1,000 daytime population. May 2025 was also a bad month for Newport residents, when it was the Isle of Wight's most dangerous area for drugs, recording 19 crimes at a rate of 0.67 per 1,000 daytime population.
The most common crimes in Newport are violence and sexual offences, with 1,439 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 51. This is 2.7% higher than 2025's figure of 1,401 offences and a difference of 1.33 from 2025's crime rate of 50. Newport's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 12 offences recorded in 2026, the same as 2025's figure of 12 crimes.
Newport 2026 Crime Scorecard
Most Dangerous
Medium-Sized Towns, The Isle of Wight
73% higher, regional crime rate
South East
48% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Newport is 73% higher than the South East and 48% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Newport Crime Rate Over Time
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Newport Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Newport represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Newport's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Newport up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Newport's 689 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
CrimeRate Insights
Looking into a specific address in Newport? CrimeRate Insights reports convert raw numbers into practical insight for any location, from single addresses and postcodes, up to major towns and cities.
Crime rates don’t happen by themselves; they follow people and patterns. Where crowds gather - near pubs and late-night venues, around the station, by supermarkets and forecourts - incidents naturally concentrate.
That doesn’t mean an area is "bad"; it usually means footfall is higher.
Your report explores these factors in a calm, non-judgemental way, putting the numbers in context and helping you spot what’s typical for places like this.
Crime Risk Scores
Newport • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Newport has a crime risk score of 631. This is based on analysis of 689 nearby areas within Newport, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Newport's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Newport, crime risk scores are typically around 631, while in Isle of Wight they are average 572.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 688 (580 for Isle of Wight), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 738 (Isle of Wight 591).
Trends in Crime Risk
Newport
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
No trend could be found in Newport's crime risk scores over the last 10 years, and the trend may well be static.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Newport's crime risk score is down by 3.9%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Over the last year, Newport's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 4.0%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Newport
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Newport • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Public Order offences have a crime rate of 12 reports per 1,000 people in Newport, which is 2.13 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 348 crime reports logged by Hampshire Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Hampshire Police recorded 429 reports of Shoplifting in Newport, resulting in a crime rate of 15 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.13.
The crime rate for Possession of Weapons is 1.82 times the national average at 1.42 reports per 1,000. This is from 40 crime reports reported to Hampshire Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Newport
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.68 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 1.36 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 97% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.10 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 0.44 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 150% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Newport
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.71 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 1.77 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 3.4% over this timeframe.
Drugs offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.39 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 1.90 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 27% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.75 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 0.13 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 477% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Newport • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
Newport | Isle of Wight | South East | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 374 | 13.26 | 0.94 | 1,370 | 9.09 | 0.64 | 115,500 | 10.87 | 0.77 |
| Bicycle Theft | 12 | 0.43 | 1.10 | 44 | 0.29 | 0.43 | 7,315 | 0.68 | 0.93 |
| Burglary | 52 | 1.85 | 0.70 | 299 | 2.00 | 0.64 | 23,535 | 2.23 | 0.71 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 225 | 7.97 | 1.27 | 872 | 5.80 | 0.92 | 58,501 | 5.50 | 0.88 |
| Drugs | 151 | 5.34 | 1.73 | 426 | 2.82 | 0.91 | 25,203 | 2.37 | 0.77 |
| Other Crime | 74 | 2.63 | 1.42 | 226 | 1.50 | 0.81 | 17,151 | 1.61 | 0.87 |
| Other Theft | 156 | 5.51 | 0.97 | 644 | 4.27 | 0.75 | 51,336 | 4.84 | 0.85 |
| Possession of Weapons | 40 | 1.42 | 1.82 | 146 | 0.99 | 1.16 | 8,736 | 0.81 | 0.95 |
| Public Order | 348 | 12.34 | 2.13 | 1,077 | 7.14 | 1.23 | 54,745 | 5.15 | 0.89 |
| Robbery | 27 | 0.97 | 0.90 | 76 | 0.50 | 0.42 | 7,588 | 0.72 | 0.61 |
| Shoplifting | 429 | 15.20 | 2.13 | 1,044 | 6.90 | 0.97 | 72,983 | 6.88 | 0.96 |
| Theft From the Person | 15 | 0.55 | 0.60 | 53 | 0.36 | 0.23 | 4,668 | 0.45 | 0.29 |
| Vehicle Crime | 35 | 1.26 | 0.35 | 162 | 1.07 | 0.25 | 34,099 | 3.22 | 0.75 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 1,439 | 51.01 | 1.68 | 5,232 | 34.72 | 1.14 | 286,815 | 26.98 | 0.89 |
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Total Crime by Year
Newport | Isle of Wight | South East | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 3,003 | 106.48 | 1.53 | 10,301 | 68.36 | 0.95 | 652,675 | 61.44 | 0.85 |
| 2025 | 3,038 | 108.21 | 1.49 | 10,891 | 72.92 | 0.99 | 670,274 | 63.35 | 0.86 |
| 2024 | 3,051 | 109.47 | 1.49 | 10,695 | 72.03 | 0.96 | 690,903 | 65.86 | 0.87 |
| 2023 | 2,935 | 106.68 | 1.38 | 11,331 | 76.63 | 0.97 | 713,547 | 68.83 | 0.87 |
| 2022 | 3,080 | 113.37 | 1.50 | 11,242 | 76.24 | 1.00 | 704,444 | 68.58 | 0.89 |
| 2021 | 2,401 | 88.47 | 1.31 | 9,572 | 65.00 | 0.95 | 625,484 | 61.36 | 0.89 |
| 2020 | 2,678 | 98.76 | 1.36 | 9,576 | 64.94 | 0.88 | 669,219 | 65.97 | 0.89 |
| 2019 | 2,923 | 107.66 | 1.45 | 9,694 | 65.73 | 0.86 | 666,505 | 65.82 | 0.86 |
| 2018 | 2,933 | 108.21 | 1.55 | 9,983 | 67.87 | 0.96 | 644,142 | 63.85 | 0.90 |
| 2017 | 2,177 | 81.12 | 1.30 | 8,169 | 56.01 | 0.88 | 552,696 | 55.04 | 0.86 |
| 2016 | 596 | 22.26 | 1.19 | 2,169 | 14.93 | 0.78 | 160,273 | 15.99 | 0.84 |
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Comparing Newport to the UK's Major Cities
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| City Name | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Cardiff | 79.55 | 25% safer |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 82.69 | 22% safer |
| Sheffield | 84.09 | 21% safer |
| Leicester | 97.87 | 8% safer |
| Bristol | 104.64 | 1.7% safer |
| Birmingham | 105.05 | 1.3% safer |
| Liverpool | 106.48 | 0% safer |
| Newport | 106.48 | - |
| Leeds | 107.10 | 0.58% more dangerous |
| Nottingham | 107.74 | 1.2% more dangerous |
| Westminster | 125.00 | 17% more dangerous |
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Offences In and Around Newport's Parks & Leisure Spaces
Limited to spaces in Newport that are named and have had crimes recorded within their boundaries in the 12 months to Apr 2026.
| Name | ASB | Drugs | Public Order | Robbery | VSO | All Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alvington Road Allotments | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Nine Acres Recreation Ground | 8 | 3 | 8 | - | 33 | 8 |
| Seaclose Recreation Ground | 7 | 7 | 8 | - | 39 | 14 |
| Newport Cemetery | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 11 | 7 |
| Parkhurst Military Cemetery | - | 1 | 2 | - | 7 | 2 |
| Victoria Recreation Ground | 2 | 3 | 7 | - | 26 | 5 |
| Medina Leisure Centre | 5 | 6 | 5 | - | 30 | 6 |
| Pan Mill Meadows | 20 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 18 |
| Pan Country Park | 7 | 2 | 7 | - | 46 | 16 |
Recent Crimes in Newport
The 20 most recent crime reports in Newport.
| Date | Crime Type | Location | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Bernard Way | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Angelica Grove | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Foxes Road | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Scarrots Lane | |
| April 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | On or near Meadow Green | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Spring Walk | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Sea Street | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Scarrots Lane | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Elm Grove | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Highfield Road | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Parking Area | |
| April 2026 | Vehicle crime | On or near Parking Area | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Hunny Hill | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Angelica Grove | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Parking Area | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Parking Area | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Angelica Grove | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Angelica Grove | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near South Street | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near West View |
Methodology & Data Sources
Newport Crime Report
Data Sources & Processing
Every month, CrimeRate processes crime reports from data.police.uk, the UK's official provider of open crime report data. Each crime report includes anonymised coordinates, most often "snapped" to the middle of the nearest street, or to the nearest major landmark. The reports also include the month and year the crime was reported, as well as the type of crime.
Data releases on data.police.uk happen once a month, with a two-month delay. This means that, for example, crimes reported in Newport during June 2026 will typically become available in August 2026. The latest release is for Apr 2026 and was released in Jun 2026. To provide current and historical crime statistics, CrimeRate processed 61,669,232 crime reports for the latest release.
Newport Data Points
For Newport, CrimeRate uses the geographic boundaries provided by The Office for National Statistics in the December 2022 release of their Built Up Areas dataset, using the BUA22CD column value E63006744.
Due to the 2021 Census being conducted during a UK-wide Coronavirus lockdown, the daytime population figures released so far cannot be relied on for purposes such as comparing crime rates. Instead, CrimeRate uses Newport's daytime - or "workday" - population of 22,312 from the ONS 2011 Census for calculations throughout the site.
All geographic boundaries use the full resolution - extent of the realm versions where provided to avoid missing crime reports near coastlines and rivers - the banks of the Thames in particular - that would otherwise not be included when using the clipped to the coastline datasets.
Calculating Crime Rates
CrimeRate locates the UK region, county, and town/city/village locality for each crime report, and calculates the crime rate by taking the sum of all crime reports, dividing it by the locality's daytime / "workday" population, and multiplying the result by 1,000 to get the crime rate per 1,000.
Crime Risk Score Calculations
CrimeRate calculates crime counts for local, nearby, and wider areas for every postcode in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The postcodes locations are deduplicated by a process that ensures distinct points are approximately 50 metres apart. This process removes the bias that would otherwise come from counting the same crimes several times in heavily populated areas.
Using a custom algorithm developed in-house, CrimeRate applies a crime severity weighting to each area's crime counts, based on the type of crime reported. This increases or decreases the crime count, or zeroes it out entirely, depending on the crime type. A separate crime severity rate is then calculated, standardised, and scaled to fit the crime risk score range of 1 to 1,000, with 1 being the lowest score, and 1,000 the highest.
Crime risk scores undergo further analysis per town, city, and village plus other areas including police forces and neighbourhoods. CrimeRate uses percentiles to work out the most common range of crime risk scores in each locality. This includes identifying the high and low bounds where approximately 68% of scores fall, and finding the median (50th percentile) for easy reference.
The crime types with a weight of zero are: Anti-Social Behaviour; Bicycle Theft; Other Crime; Other Theft; and Shoplifting. The highest weights to are assigned to Violence & Sexual Offences, and the lowest to Vehicle Crime.
Frequently Asked Questions
Crime in Newport