Kirkby
TownTown in Knowsley, North West.
Kirkby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kirkby add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 1% of people in Kirkby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kirkby compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Kirkby safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kirkby at a rate of 95.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 404 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kirkby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,909), other crime (814) and anti-social behaviour (567).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Kirkby was 100.3 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Kirkby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kirkby has no single figure. Of its 29 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 15 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Kirkby
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knowsley 001A | 2,163 | 74.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 83.8% |
| Knowsley 001B | 1,300 | 33.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Knowsley 001C | 1,843 | 78.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Knowsley 001D | 1,800 | 130.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Knowsley 001E | 2,316 | 80.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Knowsley 002A | 1,547 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| Knowsley 002B | 1,521 | 55.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.7% |
| Knowsley 002C | 1,247 | 59.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.5% |
| Knowsley 002D | 1,545 | 56.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Knowsley 002E | 2,646 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Knowsley 002F | 2,019 | 46.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.0% |
| Knowsley 003A | 1,987 | 83.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| Knowsley 003B | 1,259 | 109.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Knowsley 003C | 1,455 | 186.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Knowsley 003D | 1,389 | 544.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.5% |
| Knowsley 003E | 1,382 | 101.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 79.0% |
| Knowsley 004A | 1,752 | 155.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Knowsley 004B | 1,308 | 69.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.7% |
| Knowsley 004C | 1,536 | 82.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Knowsley 004D | 1,377 | 73.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Knowsley 004E | 1,771 | 65.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Knowsley 004F | 1,338 | 100.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Knowsley 005A | 1,517 | 83.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.0% |
| Knowsley 005B | 1,315 | 105.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Knowsley 005C | 1,519 | 92.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Knowsley 005D | 1,524 | 86.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Knowsley 005G | 1,451 | 170.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.7% |
| Sefton 026A | 1,289 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Sefton 026B | 2,067 | 127.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.2% |
Your MP
- Anneliese MidgleyLabourMP for Knowsley
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Kirkby4
Middle areas in Kirkby5
Towns near Kirkby6
Kirkby in brief
Kirkby is a town in Knowsley, North West.
About 47,698 people lived in Kirkby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £165,000 in 2025 across 468 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 95.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Kirkby was £165,000 in 2025.
Kirkby had 45,559 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Kirkby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kirkby, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.