Neighbourhoods in Knowsley
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20 neighbourhoods · 100 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Kirkby South West & Field Lane | £723 | +3.8% | 97 | 51 |
| Mosscroft & Bakers Green | £727 | +3.8% | 99 | 67 |
| Huyton East | £730 | +3.8% | 99 | 44 |
| Whiston South | £730 | +3.8% | 99 | 31 |
| Knowsley Village & Southdene | £741 | +3.8% | 93 | 63 |
| Page Moss & Fincham | £750 | +3.8% | 90 | 28 |
| Longview & Knowsley Park | £752 | +3.8% | 96 | 41 |
| Prescot | £759 | +3.8% | 92 | 38 |
| Huyton Farm | £769 | +3.8% | 99 | 74 |
| Kirkby North West | £787 | +3.8% | 98 | 82 |
| Halewood South | £800 | +3.8% | 91 | 35 |
| Kirkby South East | £806 | +3.8% | 85 | 31 |
| Stockbridge Village | £806 | +3.8% | 83 | 29 |
| Kirkby North East | £822 | +3.8% | 96 | 63 |
| Whiston North | £839 | +3.8% | 99 | 69 |
| Halewood Central | £845 | +3.8% | 99 | 86 |
| Court Hey & Swanside | £892 | +3.8% | 98 | 95 |
| Halewood North | £923 | +3.8% | 94 | 73 |
| Halsnead, Cronton & Halewood East | £974 | +3.8% | 92 | 74 |
| Huyton West & Roby | £989 | +3.8% | 94 | 67 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Knowsley
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Knowsley. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Knowsley median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Knowsley.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Knowsley
Crime in Knowsley runs at 19% below the national average. Bottom quartile (#244 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 81.5, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Knowsley
100% of schools serving Knowsley are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Knowsley
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Knowsley
Knowsley has 0.43 jobs per resident locally. Above median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Knowsley
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Knowsley?
- The median monthly rent across Knowsley is £805, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Knowsley?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Knowsley by estimated median rent is Kirkby South West & Field Lane at approximately £723/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Knowsley?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Knowsley is Huyton Farm at 99/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Knowsley a safe area?
- Knowsley has an average safety score of 56/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Knowsley?
- The most common council tax band in Knowsley is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,069. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Knowsley.
- What is the average salary in Knowsley?
- The median annual resident salary in Knowsley is £32,542, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Knowsley, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Knowsley?
- The average property price in Knowsley is approximately £190,658 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Knowsley?
- Gross rental yield in Knowsley is approximately 5.1% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Knowsley?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 2.6 years in Knowsley. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Knowsley?
- 100% of premises in Knowsley are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Knowsley?
- 4.3% of 16-64 residents in Knowsley are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Knowsley?
- Knowsley contains 20 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 100 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Knowsley
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Knowsley 009A
- Knowsley 004A
- Knowsley 002E
- Knowsley 004B
- Knowsley 002F
- Knowsley 009B
- Knowsley 004C
- Knowsley 001A
- Knowsley 003A
- Knowsley 015B
- Knowsley 007D
- Knowsley 001E
- Knowsley 009E
- Knowsley 014E
- Knowsley 012D
- Knowsley 004E
- Knowsley 015C
- Knowsley 007A
- Knowsley 014B
- Knowsley 001C
- Knowsley 011B
- Knowsley 003E
- Knowsley 001D
- Knowsley 014F
- Knowsley 020D
- Knowsley 012C
- Knowsley 004D
- Knowsley 013E
- Knowsley 006C
- Knowsley 002D
- Knowsley 004F
- Knowsley 006A
- Knowsley 006F
- Knowsley 012B
- Knowsley 012A
- Knowsley 007E
- Knowsley 018D
- Knowsley 008F
- Knowsley 020E
- Knowsley 010C
- Knowsley 008A
- Knowsley 005C
- Knowsley 007F
- Knowsley 003C
- Knowsley 014D
- Knowsley 007G
- Knowsley 016C
- Knowsley 015D
- Knowsley 015A
- Knowsley 005F
- Knowsley 009C
- Knowsley 016D
- Knowsley 010E
- Knowsley 017A
- Knowsley 001B
- Knowsley 003B
- Knowsley 005D
- Knowsley 015E
- Knowsley 011C
- Knowsley 002A
- Knowsley 003D
- Knowsley 017C
- Knowsley 014C
- Knowsley 013C
- Knowsley 005B
- Knowsley 011D
- Knowsley 020B
- Knowsley 019D
- Knowsley 008E
- Knowsley 006B
- Knowsley 013D
- Knowsley 007B
- Knowsley 018C
- Knowsley 017B
- Knowsley 005A
- Knowsley 014A
- Knowsley 010D
- Knowsley 010A
- Knowsley 009D
- Knowsley 005G
Showing 80 of 100 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.