Newport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP)[5] located within Downe Township in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

As of the 2000 United States Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 08345 was 834.

[8] Newport is a very rural community, with colonial, craftsman, and Victorian style homes.

Many coastal roads (mostly dirt) were once used for the transportation of salt hay or Saltmeadow Cordgrass.

Salt hay marshes serve as pollution filters and as buffers against flooding and shoreline erosion.