Newport

What is it like to live in Newport?

Homes sold for a typical £215,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 2,354 of the 2,829 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 37 primary schools and 7 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Newport (S Wales), 500 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Welsh Government school list; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Newport?

Homes in Newport sold for a typical £215,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,301 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £215,000 from 1,804 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £380,000 213 sales
• Semi-detached £245,000 462 sales
• Terraced £180,000 509 sales
• Flat or maisonette £127,500 117 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole NP20 district, Newport's main postcode district: a typical £215,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Newport: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Newport?

104 of the 2,916 postcodes now in use in Newport came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 123 of the 1,804 homes sold in Newport were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NP20 district, 13%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Newport?

Ofcom reports on 2,829 of the 2,916 postcodes in Newport. At 2,354 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 9 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Which schools are in Newport?

The open schools at the postcodes in Newport (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Source: Welsh Government school list, read 27 October 2026. Each school opens its page on My Local School.

How far is the station from Newport?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Newport is Newport (S Wales) Rail Station, 500 m away in a straight line.

• Newport (S Wales) Rail Station Railway station 500 mWalk
• Pye Corner Rail Station Railway station 3.4 kmCycle
• Rogerstone Rail Station Railway station 5.1 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Newport?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Newport, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• St. Paul's Clinic Phone 01633 266140 400 mWalk
• Bryngwyn Surgery Phone 01633 263463 950 mWalk
• The Rugby Surgery Phone 01633 258564 1.1 kmWalk
• Bellevue Surgery Phone 01633 256337 1.1 kmWalk
• St David's Clinic Phone 01633 251133 1.1 kmWalk

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Newport safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 10,732 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Newport over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: drugs 296, other crime 231, robbery 140, possession of weapons 133, bicycle theft 63, theft from the person 62.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Newport?

Council

Newport

Parliamentary constituencies

Newport East (2,098) and Newport West and Islwyn (818)

Police force area

Gwent

Country

Wales

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.