Knowsley

What is it like to live in Knowsley?

Homes sold for a typical £243,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 62 of the 70 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 37 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 8 of its 70 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Fir Tree, 1.8 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Prescot, 4.7 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 Knowsley?

Homes in Knowsley sold for a typical £243,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 19 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £186,250 from 40 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached £575,000 8 sales
• Semi-detached £217,500 9 sales
• Terraced 2 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole L34 district, Knowsley's main postcode district: a typical £244,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Knowsley: 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 Knowsley?

None of the 70 postcodes now in use in Knowsley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 40 homes sold in Knowsley were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the L34 district, 20%.

New homes among the homes sold

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 Knowsley?

Ofcom reports on 70 of the 70 postcodes in Knowsley. At 62 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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.

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

Is Knowsley at risk of flooding?

8 of the 70 postcodes in Knowsley 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 37 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 Knowsley?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Knowsley. 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.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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

How far is the station from Knowsley?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Knowsley is Prescot Rail Station, 4.7 km away in a straight line.

• Prescot Rail Station Railway station 4.7 kmCycle
• Roby Rail Station Railway station 4.7 kmCycle
• Huyton Rail Station Railway station 4.8 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 Knowsley?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Knowsley. 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.

• Fir Tree Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2025 · Phone 0151 548 6969 1.8 kmCycle
• Stockbridge Village Hc Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 489 9924 2.5 kmCycle
• Yewtree Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2025 · Phone 0151 296 7990 3.1 kmCycle

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

Is Knowsley safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 263 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Knowsley 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: burglary 8, shoplifting 6, possession of weapons 2, theft from the person 1, bicycle theft 1, robbery 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.

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

Who runs Knowsley?

Council

Knowsley

Parliamentary constituency

Knowsley

Police force area

Merseyside

Region

North West

Country

England

MP

Anneliese Midgley (Labour)

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.