Knottingley
Knottingley is covered by postcode district WF11. It is in the Wakefield council area, England.
Every postcode in Knottingley, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 12
- Some can get gigabit: 29
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 222
- Ofcom gives no figure: 5
Of the 268 postcodes in Knottingley that ONS places, 12 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 29 have some that can, 222 can all get it and 5 have no Ofcom figure.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.7050, longitude -1.2489. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
What is it like to live in Knottingley?
Homes sold for a typical £187,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 222 of the 263 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 110 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 34 of its 268 postcodes. It has 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Knottingley, 700 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Knottingley?
Homes in Knottingley sold for a typical £187,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 111 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £170,000 from 113 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £235,000 21 sales
- Semi-detached £182,000 67 sales
- Terraced £137,500 20 sales
- Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole WF11 district, Knottingley's main postcode district: a typical £190,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Knottingley: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Knottingley?
10 of the 268 postcodes now in use in Knottingley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 4 of the 113 homes sold in Knottingley were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WF11 district, 23%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Knottingley | Across the WF11 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 111 (0%) | 4 of 218 (2%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 4 of 113 (4%) | 68 of 297 (23%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Knottingley?
Ofcom reports on 263 of the 268 postcodes in Knottingley. At 222 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Knottingley at risk of flooding?
34 of the 268 postcodes in Knottingley have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 110 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Knottingley?
The open schools at the postcodes in Knottingley. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Knottingley?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Knottingley is Knottingley Rail Station, 700 m away in a straight line.
- Knottingley Rail Station Railway station 700 mWalk
- Pontefract Monkhill Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
- Pontefract Baghill Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Knottingley?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Knottingley. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Ash Grove Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01977 673141 200 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Knottingley safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,852 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Knottingley over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 147 September 2025
- 185 October 2025
- 119 November 2025
- 163 December 2025
- 148 January 2026
- 135 February 2026
- 114 March 2026
- 119 April 2026
- 198 May 2026
- 188 June 2026
- 172 July 2026
- 164 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 56, drugs 28, possession of weapons 15, robbery 8, bicycle theft 6, theft from the person 5.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Knottingley?
- Council
- Wakefield
- Parliamentary constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Police force area
- West Yorkshire
- Region
- Yorkshire and The Humber
- Country
- England
- MP
- Yvette Cooper (Labour)
All 268 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Knottingley
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Wakefield about council tax Council tax, on wakefield.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Knottingley
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Knottingley postcodes
268 postcodes in use in Knottingley, by district:
That district is in the WF postcode area.
Check a Knottingley postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Knottingley
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Knottingley's £187,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Knottingley
- What is the postcode for Knottingley?
- Postcode district WF11, with 268 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Knottingley in?
- Wakefield. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Knottingley?
- Yvette Cooper (Labour), for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Knottingley?
- A typical £187,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 111 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Knottingley?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include England Lane Academy, St Botolphs CE Academy and Simpson's Lane Academy; secondary schools at its postcodes include De Lacy Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Knottingley have a railway station?
- Yes: Knottingley station, 700 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Knottingley?
- Ofcom reports on 263 of the 268 postcodes in Knottingley. At 222 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Knottingley at risk of flooding?
- 34 of the 268 postcodes in Knottingley have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 110 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Knottingley?
- 10 of the 268 postcodes now in use in Knottingley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 4 of the 113 homes sold in Knottingley were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WF11 district, 23%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Environment Agency flood risk
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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