Newick is a safe area, and the numbers are the kind that don't need to be dressed up to make the point. The published crime rate is about thirty-one incidents per thousand residents a year, which is roughly fifty-six per cent below the average for the surrounding Lewes district. That is a meaningful gap, not a rounding error. Rural Sussex villages tend to be safer than the towns they sit near, and Newick is more so than most of them. If safety is one of the reasons you are looking at a village move in the first place, this is one of the postcodes where the reasoning actually holds up.
On crime level, the picture is straightforward once you stop trying to interpret it through a city lens. The published rate of about thirty-one per thousand a year covers the full range of reported incidents, from the low-level acquisitive stuff to the vanishingly rare serious offences that make the county paper when they happen. The twelve-month volume across the area comes in at around one hundred and ninety-four incidents, which for a village of just over three and a half thousand residents sits in the low-and-steady band that rural Sussex is known for. The comparison against the Lewes district average, which itself is not a particularly high-crime area by national standards, is where the answer sharpens. Fifty-six per cent below a rural district's own average is not just quiet, it is quieter than quiet. Lewes as a district records something in the order of seventy-two incidents per thousand a year, so Newick is coming in at less than half of that.
It is worth naming what these figures are, and what they are not. The rate is the published Police recorded-crime rate for the small statistical areas that make up Newick, calculated by the Police against their own population denominators for those areas. It is not the incident count divided by the resident population of the village, because the two use different underlying geographies, and doing the arithmetic yourself would produce a slightly different number that is neither more accurate nor more useful. What you can do with the published figure is compare it, cleanly, against the surrounding district and the country. On both comparisons, Newick sits well on the safe side. There are no street-level shockers hiding in the totals that a village-summary answer is glossing over. Small-village crime in this part of Sussex is dominated by low-frequency, opportunistic incidents that could happen anywhere and mostly don't.
The verdict on safety is that Newick is genuinely safe, in the sense that safety questions rarely have to be qualified for you here. This is the strongest dimension of the village's whole answer to why someone would move here, and it does not need caveats. If you are trading a suburb or a town for a village move because you want lower background noise on the crime front, the numbers say Newick delivers that and then some. There is no version of this answer where the safety data comes out ambiguous, and there is no reason to pretend otherwise.