Northwood
WardNorth Knowsley. About 12,419 people in 11 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 2% of people in Northwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Northwood compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Northwood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Northwood at a rate of 175.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 91.5 per 1,000 people across Knowsley.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 205 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Northwood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (722), other crime (372) and anti-social behaviour (333).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Knowsley
These figures are published for the whole of Knowsley, not for each ward, so they describe all of Knowsley and not Northwood alone. See Knowsley
Northwood in brief
Northwood had 11,866 usual residents at the census.
About 2% of people in Northwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Northwood, 90.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Northwood, 6.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.