Knutsford
TownTown in Cheshire East, North West.
Knutsford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Knutsford 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 0% of people in Knutsford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Knutsford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Knutsford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Knutsford at a rate of 47.5 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, 64 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Knutsford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (291), other crime (141) and shoplifting (57).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Knutsford was 49.2 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 Knutsford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Knutsford has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Knutsford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire East 009A | 1,097 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.4% |
| Cheshire East 009B | 1,718 | 33.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 009C | 1,953 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Cheshire East 009D | 1,659 | 99.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Cheshire East 010A | 1,336 | 12.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Cheshire East 010B | 1,383 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Cheshire East 010C | 1,474 | 124.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.0% |
| Cheshire East 010D | 1,278 | 10.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Cheshire East 010E | 1,358 | 7.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.2% |
Your MP
- Esther McVeyConservativeMP for Tatton
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 Knutsford1
Middle areas in Knutsford2
Towns near Knutsford6
Knutsford in brief
Knutsford is a town in Cheshire East, North West.
About 13,733 people lived in Knutsford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £485,000 in 2025 across 289 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 47.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Knutsford was £485,000 in 2025.
Knutsford had 13,254 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Knutsford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Knutsford, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.