City and Borough of Wakefield · England
Knottingley population
13,804people · latest estimate
Knottingley has a population of 13,804, making it the 6th largest place in City and Borough of Wakefield. The World Gazetteer published 13,804 for Knottingley in 2005 and the current source still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report rather than no change having happened.
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The other populations of Knottingley
Depending on where you draw the boundary, Knottingley has between 9,510 and 13,804 residents. Both are correct.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
13,804 | GeoNames |
| The built-up area Continuous development, where buildings sit less than 200m apart. Drawn from where the buildings are, not where the council boundary is. |
9,510 | ONS Census 2021 (2021) |
Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Wakefield population trends, 2001–2025.
Knottingley in context
Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.
The centre of Knottingley sits in postcode district WF11.
Council tax
The area Band D council tax for Wakefield, the billing authority covering Knottingley, is £2,297 for 2026–27.
From MHCLG's council tax statistics (Table 9): the area average including police, fire and parish precepts, so it is the council's figure rather than the town's, and your own band depends on your property's 1991 valuation.
Common questions
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Nearby in City and Borough of Wakefield
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pontefract | 44,710 |
| 2 | Ossett | 21,861 |
| 3 | South Elmsall | 18,835 |
| 4 | Featherstone | 11,060 |
| 5 | Horbury | 10,225 |
| 6 | Hemsworth | 9,246 |