Knowle

Knowle is covered by postcode district PO17. It is in the Winchester council area, Hampshire.

Typical price £252,500 Homes sold in Knowle, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 22 of 65 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Nearest school Orchard Lea Infant School 1.9 km from the middle, in a straight line

Every postcode in Knowle, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in Knowle, by gigabit broadband Of the 70 postcodes in Knowle that ONS places, 37 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 6 have some that can, 22 can all get it and 5 have no Ofcom figure. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 36 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Knowle. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. PO17 5FW: no Ofcom figurePO17 5FZ: no Ofcom figurePO17 5GN: no Ofcom figurePO17 5GP: no Ofcom figurePO17 5QE: no Ofcom figurePO17 5BE: gigabit for allPO17 5BF: gigabit for allPO17 5DQ: gigabit for allPO17 5FE: gigabit for allPO17 5FF: gigabit for allPO17 5FR: gigabit for allPO17 5GB: gigabit for allPO17 5GD: gigabit for allPO17 5GG: gigabit for allPO17 5GL: gigabit for allPO17 5GQ: gigabit for allPO17 5GR: gigabit for allPO17 5LE: gigabit for allPO17 5LF: gigabit for allPO17 5LG: gigabit for allPO17 5LQ: gigabit for allPO17 5LU: gigabit for allPO17 5NG: gigabit for allPO17 5NQ: gigabit for allPO17 5NR: gigabit for allPO17 5PE: gigabit for allPO17 5PW: gigabit for allPO17 5DG: some gigabitPO17 5FB: some gigabitPO17 5FL: some gigabitPO17 5FY: some gigabitPO17 5JX: some gigabitPO17 5PY: some gigabitPO17 5AG: no gigabitPO17 5AQ: no gigabitPO17 5BG: no gigabitPO17 5DA: no gigabitPO17 5DS: no gigabitPO17 5DT: no gigabitPO17 5DU: no gigabitPO17 5DY: no gigabitPO17 5DZ: no gigabitPO17 5FA: no gigabitPO17 5FD: no gigabitPO17 5FG: no gigabitPO17 5FH: no gigabitPO17 5FP: no gigabitPO17 5FQ: no gigabitPO17 5FS: no gigabitPO17 5FT: no gigabitPO17 5FU: no gigabitPO17 5FX: no gigabitPO17 5GA: no gigabitPO17 5GE: no gigabitPO17 5GF: no gigabitPO17 5GH: no gigabitPO17 5GJ: no gigabitPO17 5GY: no gigabitPO17 5LJ: no gigabitPO17 5LR: no gigabitPO17 5LS: no gigabitPO17 5LT: no gigabitPO17 5LY: no gigabitPO17 5LZ: no gigabitPO17 5NA: no gigabitPO17 5PN: no gigabitPO17 5PZ: no gigabitPO17 5QB: no gigabitPO17 5QD: no gigabitPO17 5QF: no gigabit Knowle Map of every postcode in Knowle, by gigabit broadband Of the 70 postcodes in Knowle that ONS places, 37 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 6 have some that can, 22 can all get it and 5 have no Ofcom figure. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 36 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Knowle. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Knowle
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 37
  • Some can get gigabit: 6
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 22
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 5
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 70 postcodes in Knowle that ONS places, 37 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 6 have some that can, 22 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 50.8813, longitude -1.2045. 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.

Postcodes without gigabit

37 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

PO17 5AGPO17 5AQPO17 5BGPO17 5DAPO17 5DSPO17 5DTPO17 5DUPO17 5DYPO17 5DZPO17 5FAPO17 5FDPO17 5FG

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

  • 36 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PO17 5FH, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What is it like to live in Knowle?

Homes sold for a typical £252,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 22 of the 65 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 70 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. The nearest school is Orchard Lea Infant School, 1.9 km from the middle of its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Meon Health Practice, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Fareham, 3.3 km 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 Knowle?

Homes in Knowle sold for a typical £252,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 39 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £245,000 from 37 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£252,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£245,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached 2 sales, too few to price
  • Semi-detached 3 sales, too few to price
  • Terraced £285,000 11 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £210,000 23 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole PO17 district, Knowle's main postcode district: a typical £310,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Knowle: 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 Knowle?

None of the 70 postcodes now in use in Knowle came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 37 homes sold in Knowle were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PO17 district, 4%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn KnowleAcross the PO17 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 39 (0%) 2 of 81 (2%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 37 (0%) 4 of 92 (4%)

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 Knowle?

Ofcom reports on 65 of the 70 postcodes in Knowle. At 22 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit22 of 65
Postcodes where every home can get superfast57 of 65
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 65

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 checker

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Knowle at risk of flooding?

None of the 70 postcodes in Knowle is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 Knowle?

There is no primary school at the postcodes in Knowle; these are the nearest to its middle. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. 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

Secondary

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Knowle?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Knowle is Fareham Rail Station, 3.3 km away in a straight line.

  • Fareham Rail Station Railway station 3.3 kmCycle
  • Swanwick Rail Station Railway station 4.4 kmCycle
  • Botley Rail Station Railway station 5.5 kmDrive

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 Knowle?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Knowle. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Knowle safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 172 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Knowle 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

  1. 33 September 2025
  2. 21 October 2025
  3. 17 November 2025
  4. 11 December 2025
  5. 12 January 2026
  6. 11 February 2026
  7. 11 March 2026
  8. 10 April 2026
  9. 10 May 2026
  10. 10 June 2026
  11. 13 July 2026
  12. 13 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences100 reports
Public order20 reports
Anti-social behaviour18 reports
Other theft13 reports
Criminal damage and arson8 reports
Burglary5 reports
Vehicle crime4 reports
Other crime2 reports

Also: theft from the person 1, drugs 1.

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 postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Knowle?

District, borough or city council
Winchester
County council
Hampshire
Parliamentary constituency
Fareham and Waterlooville
Police force area
Hampshire
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Suella Braverman (Reform UK)

All 70 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 Knowle

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Knowle postcodes

70 postcodes in use in Knowle, by district:

PO17 postcode district,70 postcodes

That district is in the PO postcode area.

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Places near Knowle

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Knowle's £252,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Wickham2.3 km, £315,000Fareham3.2 km, £315,000Whiteley3.5 km, £345,000Locks Heath5.2 km, £375,000Waltham Chase5.9 km, £408,500Botley6.4 km, £346,500Swanmore6.9 km, £624,000Lee-on-the-Solent7.3 km, £356,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Knowle

What is the postcode for Knowle?
Postcode district PO17, with 70 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Knowle in?
Winchester, with Hampshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Knowle?
Suella Braverman (Reform UK), for Fareham and Waterlooville. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Knowle?
A typical £252,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 39 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Knowle?
The nearest primary school to the middle of its postcodes is Orchard Lea Infant School, 1.9 km away; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Boundary Oak School, 2.2 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Knowle have a railway station?
The nearest is Fareham station, 3.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Knowle?
Ofcom reports on 65 of the 70 postcodes in Knowle. At 22 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
Is Knowle at risk of flooding?
None of the 70 postcodes in Knowle is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Knowle?
None of the 70 postcodes now in use in Knowle came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 37 homes sold in Knowle were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PO17 district, 4%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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