Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0Newbridge stands out for public order: 2.8 times the rate of a typical town its size
Each year brought 36.2 violent and sexual offences and 15.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every 1,000 residents. Taking everything together, Newbridge scores C− (#14 of 38 in Gwent): more crime per resident than 81% of UK towns, measured on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026. It has more violent crime than 79% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 83%. Violence recorded locally held about level in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Newbridge
More crime than many places its size
Of 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Newbridge has the 428th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Mildenhall, Waverley and Catcliffe and Woodville, higher than Paddock Wood, Bagillt and Hayle. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime in Wales
The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 ranks every neighbourhood in Wales on community safety. 16% of Newbridge’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Newbridge’s C− for safety
A firm grade. Built on 1,185 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Newbridge against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Newbridge runs highest on public order (10.2 per 1,000 against 3.6), other crime (3.4 per 1,000 against 1.5) and burglary (4.2 per 1,000 against 1.9).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 266 | 35.1 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 126 | 16.6 | 8.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 77 | 10.2 | 3.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 73 | 9.6 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 37 | 4.9 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 32 | 4.2 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 26 | 3.4 | 1.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 25 | 3.3 | 2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 10 | 1.3 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 7 | 0.9 | 0.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
1 in 6 Newbridge residents lives in one of Wales’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
16% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. The community safety domain scores recorded crime, anti-social behaviour and fire incidents where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Newbridge’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (community safety domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of Wales’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Newbridge places 428th of 546 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merley Dorset | 5,489 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 3.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 110 | Undy and Magor Gwent | 5,742 | 18.6 | 8 | 4.1 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 127 | Rogerstone Gwent | 7,546 | 17.5 | 10.1 | 9.6 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 218 | Oakdale Gwent | 6,126 | 24.1 | 9 | 3.7 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 384 | Pontllanfraith Gwent | 9,363 | 31.7 | 15.2 | 7.4 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 425 | Paddock Wood Kent | 7,616 | 33.2 | 18.7 | 23.5 | C− |
| 426 | Bagillt Clwyd | 5,943 | 39.3 | 12.7 | 6.1 | C− |
| 427 | Hayle Cornwall | 9,040 | 36.7 | 15.3 | 16.4 | C− |
| 428 | Newbridge Gwent | 7,582 | 36.2 | 15.9 | 5.4 | C− |
| 429 | Abercarn Gwent | 5,123 | 35.5 | 16.7 | 4.4 | C− |
| 430 | Allerton Bywater West Yorkshire | 6,958 | 34.2 | 18 | 3.8 | C− |
| 431 | Botley Hampshire | 5,900 | 38.9 | 13.5 | 7.4 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 546 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Newbridge, and others in Gwent.
Crime in Newbridge per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 17 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 5 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police in Newbridge identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 63% of Newbridge’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 15% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (59% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 3% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 404 crimes.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling twelve-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +3% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +16% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -28% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -28% (towns its size +0%).
Where in Newbridge police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and recreation grounds | 126 | 42% violent |
| Car parks | 100 | 34% violent |
| Supermarkets | 48 | 33% violent |
| Petrol stations | 22 | 45% drugs, public order & other |
police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Newbridge. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
One person died in collisions on Newbridge’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 43 collisions with injuries inside Newbridge in five years, in which one person died. 23 people were killed or seriously injured: 4 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, so with numbers this small a single collision changes the picture; Newbridge’s one death is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Newbridge had 61.9 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (16.7).
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Newbridge’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Newbridge
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newbridge | 7,582 | 36.2 | 15.9 | C− |
| Swffryd | 1,721 | 44.8 | 19.4 | D |
| Oakdale | 6,126 | 24.1 | 9 | B− |
| Abercarn | 5,123 | 35.5 | 16.7 | C− |
| Trinant | 1,504 | 46.1 | 13.7 | D |
| Pontllanfraith | 9,363 | 31.7 | 15.2 | C |
| Llanhilleth | 2,450 | 63.8 | 23.4 | D− |
| Blackwood | 12,621 | 55.5 | 24.5 | D− |
Newbridge records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Oakdale, 1.4 miles away, records 24.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Newbridge’s 36.2.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Newbridge sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Newbridge
Is Newbridge safe?
Police recorded 36.2 violent and sexual offences and 15.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Newbridge’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 19% of UK towns. Among 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Newbridge is 428th from the least crime. 16% of residents live in neighbourhoods in Wales’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Newbridge?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 16%, shoplifting and theft fell 28% and anti-social behaviour fell 28%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Newbridge?
Violence & sexual offences: 266 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (77) and criminal damage & arson (73), with 126 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Newbridge compare with Cwmbrân?
Cwmbrân records 50.5 violent and sexual offences and 19.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Newbridge’s 36.2 and 15.9, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · Welsh Government Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, community safety domain by LSOA · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · 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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