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Newhaven

Newhaven is a town in East Sussex, England, with a population of around 12,854. It has around 1 pharmacy, 1 supermarket, and 10 restaurants and cafés, with 24 bus stops and Newhaven Town railway station 0.5 km away. The average sold house price is around £310,486, and there were around 176 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Newhaven area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Lewes area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 99,907 residents at roughly 342 people per km².

Council
Lewes
County
East Sussex
Constituency
Lewes
Police force
Sussex
57/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 102nd of 294 English council areas — better than 65% of them.

Low crime80
Home affordability31
Affordable rents34
Good schools95
Life expectancy68
Low deprivation57
Employment41
Low council tax1

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

11°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 11° / 9° · 36% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:56Sunset 16:29

9h 33m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

31US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Eastbourne, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

178 reported · August 2026▲ 19% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences62
  • Anti-social behaviour50
  • Criminal damage & arson14
  • Public order13

8 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Denton · Sussex

Local policing priorities

  • Drug harm reduction. Targeting drug related crime in your town through intelligence, enforcement and partnership work.
  • Operation Downsway / Speeding Our yearly campaign to address community concerns around road and driving related offences that fall into t…

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

206 reported road collisions (2025)

61 killed or seriously injured · 282 casualties · 20.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

87 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 70 rated 4–5 ★ (64 top)
  • 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Newhaven Town (0.5 km)
  • 24 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Newhaven Town (0.5 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£374,305 average▲ 1.5% YoY

Across Lewes · to 2026-08

Detached£601,470
Semi-detached£404,613
Terraced£330,094
Flat£201,106

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,333 average monthly rent▲ 5.9% YoY

  • 1 bed £924
  • 2 bed £1,217
  • 3 bed £1,506

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

9.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.7 times median annual pay (9.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,450 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (9.7 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (11.9 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

7 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Newhaven Town Centre Car Park (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools3
  • Sports pitches12
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

99,907 residents in Lewes · 342/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 57%
  • 65+: 26%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,856
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,018
  • Net moves+838

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 170 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,756 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (29% of 47,330)

A £1,837
B £2,144
C £2,450
D £2,756
E £3,369
F £3,981
G £4,594
H £5,512

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

38 schools · 13,446 pupils

25 primary · 6 secondary · 7 other

Ofsted: 8 of 8 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

34 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Peacehaven Community SchoolGood
  • Seahaven AcademyGood
  • Chailey School
  • King's Academy Ringmer
  • Priory School
  • Seaford Head School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Lewes

Care & health services

703 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes301
  • GP practices81
  • Dentists140
  • Homecare agencies107
  • Hospitals & hospices24

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · East Sussex

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 40 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

112 applications decided

91.1% granted · 102 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

James MacCleary

Liberal Democrat

Lewes

Recent votes:

  • NoRailways Bill: Carry-over extension (Motion)
  • AyeSporting Events Bill [Lords] Report: New Clause 1
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 76: Rates of alcohol duty
  • NoBudget Resolution No. 55: Value added tax (electric vehicle charging)

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Green / Labour coalition

  • Lab 8
  • LD 14
  • Grn 18
  • Oth 1

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools5
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets3
  • Parks & greens10
  • Restaurants & cafés14

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,845 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

77 jobs advertised · £33,199 avg

e.g. Delivery Driver, Project Coordinator, Experienced Commercial Cleaners Needed – Office Sites

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£829 median full-time weekly pay

3.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£30,837 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 48,390 certificates

10.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

56% low-carbon electricity

Gas 43% · Wind 41% · Nuclear 9% · Biomass 6%

178 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 85 yrs women · 81 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (East Sussex): 59.9 women · 59.2 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.9
  • Happiness yesterday7.5
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

3 GP surgeries · 2 pharmacies in BN9

  • Quayside Medical Practice
  • Newhaven Medical Centre
  • Hwlh/Spft Memory Assessment Service

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Lewes:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Newhaven ERF · 0.4 km

    The Newhaven ERF is an incinerator, in the town of Newhaven in the English county of East Sussex, for the treatment of up to 210,000 tonnes per annum of the county's municipal solid waste. The facility, built by Veoli…

  • Newhaven Town railway station · 0.4 km

    Newhaven Town railway station is the main station serving Newhaven, East Sussex, England, the other being Newhaven Harbour. A third station, Newhaven Marine, formally closed in October 2020, but had not had a train se…

  • Newhaven · 0.5 km

    Newhaven is a port town in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England, lying at the mouth of the River Ouse.

  • UTC@harbourside · 0.5 km

    UTC@harbourside was a University Technical College for students aged 14–18 located in Newhaven, East Sussex, England which opened in September 2015. It specialised in science, technology, engineering and maths, leadin…

  • Denton, East Sussex · 0.5 km

    Denton is a small village in the civil parish of Newhaven, in the Lewes district, in the county of East Sussex, England. It adjoins the village of South Heighton and Mount Pleasant and backs onto the South Downs.

  • Newhaven Harbour railway station · 1.0 km

    Newhaven Harbour railway station is a railway station in Newhaven, East Sussex, England. It originally served boat train services to Dieppe, but that was taken over by Newhaven Marine and then Newhaven Town.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Newhaven?
Newhaven is a town in East Sussex, England, in the Lewes local authority.
What is the population of Newhaven?
Newhaven has an approximate settlement population of 12,854.
How deprived is Newhaven?
The Lewes local authority, which includes Newhaven, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.