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A town of 7,582 in Gwent, Wales.
Newbridge grades C− overall against UK towns: better than 22% of UK towns, and #10 of 38 in Gwent. Its strongest subject is cost of living (A−): median sale £157,000, 3.7 years of area income; rent £747 a month. Its weakest is jobs & income (D): mean household income £42,397; 3.1% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits.
This town's Health Grade uses ONS's small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for 2019 to 2023, and two Census 2021 measures, bad health and disability, adjusted for age. English towns' grades also use OHID's small-area early deaths, hospital admissions and child obesity, which OHID publishes for England only.
The 3 things Newbridge does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Wales), ordered by how far Newbridge is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Cadw lists 23 buildings inside Newbridge’s built-up area, 8 of them Grade II*.
42% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
The archive holds 1 old photo or postcard going back to 1835.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Newbridge.
In the comparison, Newbridge comes above both Gwent’s towns (65%) and Wales’s towns (65%).
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £328,000 | 23 |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | 98 |
| Terraced | £136,500 | 130 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. Wales publishes no school-level results, so its schools have no letters.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tynewydd Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 268 | – |
| Newbridge SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,010 | – |
Women here live to 81.2 on average and men to 79.4 (2019–23). The nearest A&E to Newbridge is The Grange University Hospital, 6.5 miles away. At the census, 24% of people here had a disability, above both Gwent’s towns (22%) and Wales’s towns (22%).
| Census 2021 | Newbridge | Gwent | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 76% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.4% | 7.7% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 24% | 22% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL
Police recorded 556 crimes inside Newbridge’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 126 reports of anti-social behaviour. Burglary and damage came to 15.9 per 1,000 residents a year, close to Gwent’s towns (16.7) and above Wales’s towns (10.7). Among the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Newbridge has more crime per resident than 84% of them.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
For Newbridge, that is above both Gwent’s towns (26%) and Wales’s towns (27%). Newbridge has 23 listed buildings on Cadw’s list: 0 Grade I, 8 Grade II*.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 21% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Newbridge sits below both Gwent’s towns (13%) and Wales’s towns (16%) on this measure. 87% of commuters drove to work at the census.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
That puts Newbridge below both Gwent’s towns (28%) and Wales’s towns (31%). Under-15s account for 16% of the population. Newbridge has a median age of 43.7.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| Newbridge | Gwent | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 26% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 20% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 25% | 23% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.2% | 5.4% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| Degree level | 23% | 28% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Gwent and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
23 listed buildings in Newbridge.
Catholic Church of Our Lady of Peace including attached presbytery: Photo: Lewis Hulbert · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Former Navigation Colliery Fan House and Fan Drift: Photo: M J Roscoe · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Crumlin Old Bridge over River Ebbw: Photo: M J Roscoe · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Beulah Baptist Church and attached wing and gateway: Photo: Robin Drayton · CC BY-SA 2.0
16 notable people were born in Newbridge.
Steve Strange: Logan Sky, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kim Simmonds: JJS Photo, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Jack Dixon: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newbridge | 7,582 | — | C− | A− | C− | C− |
| Swffryd | 1,721 | 1.1 | — | B− | D | D− |
| Oakdale | 6,126 | 1.4 | C | B | B− | C− |
| Abercarn | 5,123 | 1.6 | C | A− | C− | D |
| Trinant | 1,504 | 1.9 | — | A | D | D |
| Pontllanfraith | 9,363 | 2.3 | C− | B+ | C | D |
| Llanhilleth | 2,450 | 2.3 | — | B | D− | D− |
| Blackwood | 12,621 | 2.5 | D | B+ | D− | D |
Swffryd, Trinant and Llanhilleth have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
23 on Cadw’s list, 8 of them Grade II*. That is 1.2 times the typical UK town for its size.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £157,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: terraced houses £136,500, semi-detached houses £180,000 and detached houses £328,000.
Police recorded 556 crimes inside Newbridge’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, 48% of them violence and sexual offences, a police category that includes harassment and stalking.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on Natural Resources Wales’s flood risk service.
Town in Gwent, Wales
Newbridge is a built-up area of 7,582 people, in the Caerphilly council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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