Knottingley
TownTown in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Knottingley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Knottingley 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 100% of people in Knottingley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Knottingley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Knottingley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Knottingley at a rate of 133.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 117 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Knottingley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (594), other crime (225) and anti-social behaviour (127).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Knottingley was 161.5 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 Knottingley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Knottingley has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Knottingley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wakefield 010A | 1,347 | 163.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.2% |
| Wakefield 010B | 1,390 | 126.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.7% |
| Wakefield 010C | 2,014 | 174.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.0% |
| Wakefield 010D | 1,411 | 72.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.3% |
| Wakefield 011A | 1,964 | 151.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| Wakefield 011E | 1,695 | 187.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.7% |
Your MP
- Yvette CooperLabourMP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
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 Knottingley1
Middle areas in Knottingley1
Towns near Knottingley6
Knottingley in brief
Knottingley is a town in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 10,072 people lived in Knottingley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £190,000 in 2025 across 171 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 133.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Knottingley was £190,000 in 2025.
Knottingley had 9,516 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Knottingley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Knottingley, 92.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.