Redwick in Wales has a Check Local Score of 63/100 (good), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Redwick sits low and quiet against the Gwent Levels, the kind of place where detached houses on generous plots outnumber anything terraced, and where a for sale board is more likely to mean a period farmhouse than a starter home. There's no high street rush here — this is a village that's kept its shape rather than filled in its gaps, and the roads around it feel built for tractors and dog walks rather than through-traffic.
The property picture backs that up directly: with sales dominated by detached homes, almost entirely freehold, and a median price of £335,000 against a Welsh average nearer £208,000, this is a place people buy into rather than pass through — a 5.3% new-build share tells you most of what's here was built decades ago and has simply stayed desirable. That premium sits alongside genuinely low churn, with turnover a little above the Welsh norm but still the pattern of a settled village rather than one people move on from quickly. A median age of 45 fits that picture too — this reads more as an established, family-and-beyond community than a starter-home magnet, and council tax at Band D level (£2,088) runs above the Welsh median, which is the ordinary cost of that kind of settled, larger-house village.
On safety, Redwick's own grade is the outlier worth noting: an A for safety sits oddly next to a crime rate that, on paper, runs 189% above the Newport average — though with only 27 incidents across a population of 569, this is a small-numbers effect as much as anything, and violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour are the categories doing most of the work in that count. It's the kind of statistic that looks alarming until you remember how few actual incidents it takes to move a percentage in a village this size. Broadband tells a more reassuring story: full-fibre coverage above 85% is well ahead of what many villages this size manage, so working from the kitchen table is a realistic option here, which matters given how thin the green space and amenity count are — just two green spaces and under a hectare between them, so this isn't a village built around parks or a café strip, but around the surrounding Levels themselves and whatever social life comes from knowing your neighbours.
This suits someone who wants space, quiet, and a strong broadband connection more than they want a walkable high street or a wide choice of schools and eateries on the doorstep — a settled, older, well-off corner of the Newport area where the trade-off is privacy and land against convenience, and where the safety figures need reading in the context of a very small population rather than taken as a headline on their own.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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