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Crime in Newport

10,081 crimes were recorded within a mile of the centre of Newport between August 2025 to July 2026. Gwent Police logged an outcome for 5,666 of them.

88% of vehicle crime cases here ended with no suspect identified.

Month by month

August 2025July 2026

What was reported, and how it ended

The change compares the most recent six months with the six before them. Cases still under investigation are not counted in the rate.

CategoryRecordedChangeNo suspect identified
Violence and sexual offences3,093up 4%21%
Anti-social behaviour1,998up 32%n/a
Shoplifting1,096down 12%45%
Public order1,062up 4%36%
Criminal damage and arson694up 4%58%
Other theft452down 5%72%
Vehicle crime445up 23%88%
Burglary362up 46%71%
Drugs279down 18%7%
Other crime215up 3%24%
Robbery139up 4%52%
Possession of weapons125up 16%8%
Theft from the person62up 7%67%
Bicycle theft59up 3%82%

Where it happens

The source records a crime as being on or near a street rather than at an address, so that nobody can be identified from it. Where a crime happened at a kind of place rather than on a road, it records the kind of place instead, and those entries are marked below. These are the locations that come up most often across the whole 12 months.

Violence and sexual offences

  1. Cambrian Road119
  2. Parking Areakind of place, not a street111
  3. Shopping Areakind of place, not a street99
  4. Skinner Lane91
  5. Sports/Recreation Areakind of place, not a street73
  6. Market Street66
  7. Griffin Street64
  8. Queensway63

Anti-social behaviour

  1. Parking Areakind of place, not a street119
  2. Griffin Street99
  3. Shopping Areakind of place, not a street96
  4. Cambrian Road88
  5. Market Street65
  6. Skinner Lane65
  7. Supermarketkind of place, not a street62
  8. Queensway55

Shoplifting

  1. Cambrian Road291
  2. Shopping Areakind of place, not a street186
  3. Gloster Street154
  4. Parking Areakind of place, not a street139
  5. Supermarketkind of place, not a street82
  6. Griffin Street42
  7. Ford Street22
  8. Skinner Lane20

Public order

  1. Parking Areakind of place, not a street62
  2. Shopping Areakind of place, not a street61
  3. Market Street38
  4. Skinner Lane34
  5. Supermarketkind of place, not a street33
  6. Griffin Street32
  7. Sports/Recreation Areakind of place, not a street31
  8. Cambrian Road27

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