Knottingley house prices are built from 7,163 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £106,995. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +57.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +12.7%.
Median price paid
£106,995
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+57.3%
Change in real terms
+12.7%
Median per m²
£1,500
HM Land Registry7,163 sales1,343 with floor areaLatest sale 15 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Knottingley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Knottingley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £41,500 | £92,150 |
| 2000s | 10 | £89,500 | £163,043 |
| 2010s | 10 | £114,000 | £160,740 |
| 2020s | 7 | £170,000 | £173,696 |
The highest yearly median on record for Knottingley is £189,995 in 2025; the lowest is £40,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £40,750 to £188,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £90,484, so the real change over the whole record is +108.6% — about +2.40% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +57.3% in cash against +12.7% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 Arncliffe Drive | 15 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 78 the Poplars | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 31 Queen Margarets Drive | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 7 Croft Lea | 4 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 11 Westfield Avenue | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £135,000 |
| 13 Pinders Garth | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 4 Blossom Court | 26 May 2026 | Detached | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 5 Lyng Court | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 12 Racca Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 15 Longwoods Walk | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 3 Marlborough Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 22 Waterside | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 9 Morley Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 87 Pollards Fields | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £100,000 | £100,000 |
| 25 Kershaw Lane | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £135,000 | £135,000 |
| 16 Ashdown Court | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £50,000 | £50,000 |
| 8 Longwoods Walk | 13 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 77 Wentcliffe Road | 11 May 2026 | Terraced | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 22 Grove Lane | 5 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 23 Vale Crescent | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 87 Womersley Road | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 10 Grafton Close | 29 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £145,000 |
| 10 Cherry Tree Walk | 24 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 4 the Wharf | 22 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 3 Byram Park Avenue | 17 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £225,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Knottingley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 Arncliffe Drive | £47,950 (2001) | £210,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 78 the Poplars | £119,995 (2005) | £150,000 (2026) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| 31 Queen Margarets Drive | £54,500 (1997) | £230,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 7 Croft Lea | £135,000 (2007) | £235,000 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.0% |
| 13 Pinders Garth | £68,000 (2004) | £195,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
| 4 Blossom Court | £182,995 (2021) | £240,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +0.7% |
| 87 Pollards Fields | £25,000 (2001) | £100,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 12 Racca Avenue | £73,950 (2002) | £190,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 5 Lyng Court | £171,495 (2008) | £200,000 (2026) | +0.9% | -2.0% |
| 15 Longwoods Walk | £139,950 (2005) | £190,000 (2026) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| 22 Waterside | £175,000 (2009) | £160,000 (2026) | -0.5% | -3.4% |
| 25 Kershaw Lane | £70,000 (2018) | £135,000 (2026) | +8.6% | +4.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Knottingley is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 3,568 | 49.8% | £108,000 | £3,000 – £9,000,000 |
| Terraced | 1,932 | 27.0% | £80,000 | £4,000 – £390,000 |
| Detached | 1,474 | 20.6% | £167,950 | £4,000 – £710,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 189 | 2.6% | £87,995 | £21,000 – £190,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Knottingley
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,932 certificates cover Knottingley, and their median floor area is 75 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — -1.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 75 m² | about 807 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 63 m² | about 678 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 86 m² | about 928 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 18.1% | 532 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 2.8% | 81 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Knottingley
214 of the sales on record are leasehold and 6,949 freehold — 3.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £84,898 and the median freehold sale £108,000 — a gap of +27.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 214 | 3.0% | £84,898 |
| Freehold | 6,949 | 97.0% | £108,000 |
| New build | 936 | 13.1% | £140,000 |
| Existing home | 6,227 | 86.9% | £99,950 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +40.1%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 472 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Knottingley
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Yorkshire, 38.1% of 324,488 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 8.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 2,546 | 0.8% |
| B | 37,477 | 11.5% |
| C | 83,448 | 25.7% |
| D | 117,825 | 36.3% |
| E | 55,738 | 17.2% |
| F | 20,519 | 6.3% |
| G | 6,935 | 2.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Yorkshire at £838 a month as of Jun 2026 — £586 for a one-bedroom home and £929 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £106,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.40% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of WF11, 194 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 73 violent, 8 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 15 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Knottingley
8 state and independent schools have a WF11 postcode: 7 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Lacy Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 853 |
| Simpson's Lane Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 387 |
| St Botolphs CE Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 281 |
| Willow Green Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 228 |
| England Lane Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 225 |
| The Vale Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 218 |
| Brotherton and Byram Community Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 185 |
| Fairburn Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 87 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Knottingley Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Pontefract Monkhill Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Pontefract Baghill Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Pontefract Tanshelf Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
Section 09
How Knottingley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Knottingley sits below that national figure — -32.1%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,500 per square metre, across 1,343 of the 7,163 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £3,000 to £9,000,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Knottingley sits in North Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Yorkshire at 7.9 times median local earnings of £34,785 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Knottingley
- Pollards Fields201 sales
- Pontefract Road194 sales
- Womersley Road153 sales
- Arncliffe Drive148 sales
- The Poplars141 sales
- Queen Margarets Drive122 sales
- The Wharf120 sales
- Downland Crescent119 sales
- Cherry Tree Walk118 sales
- Sutton Lane108 sales
- Plowes Way97 sales
- Wedgewood Way84 sales
- Seaton Crescent83 sales
- Weeland Road76 sales
- Broomhill Avenue74 sales
- Hall Court73 sales
- Mill View69 sales
- Weeland Court68 sales
- Springfields64 sales
- Woodville Way63 sales
- Doncaster Road60 sales
- Oak Tree Crescent59 sales
- West Acres56 sales
- Bentley Crescent55 sales
- Rossiter Drive55 sales
- Lyng Court53 sales
- Shelley Drive52 sales
- Silver Street52 sales
- Simpsons Lane52 sales
- Wrights Lane52 sales
- Summerfield Drive49 sales
- Sycamore Avenue49 sales
- Springfield Avenue46 sales
- Vale Terrace46 sales
- Cleveland Avenue45 sales
- Marsh End44 sales
- Vale Crescent44 sales
- Byram Park Road43 sales
- Fairfield43 sales
- Oakfield Crescent42 sales
- Queen Margarets Avenue42 sales
- Warren Avenue42 sales
- Windermere Drive42 sales
- Hazel Road41 sales
- East Acres40 sales
- Fir Tree Court40 sales
- Cow Lane39 sales
- Ferrybridge Road39 sales
- Pear Tree Grove37 sales
- Pinders Garth37 sales
- Saltersgate Avenue37 sales
- Sunny Bank37 sales
- Kingsley Avenue36 sales
- Low Green36 sales
- Sandringham Avenue36 sales
- Aire Street35 sales
- Longwoods Walk35 sales
- Oak Tree Way35 sales
- Rainsborough Avenue34 sales
- Gauk Street33 sales
Postcode districts covering Knottingley
- WF11£106,995 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Knottingley?
The median price paid in Knottingley across every sale on the register is £106,995. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Knottingley?
7,163 sales are on record for Knottingley, the most recent completing on 15 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Knottingley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +57.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +12.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Knottingley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £189,995, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Knottingley?
£1,500 per square metre, from the 1,343 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 15 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Knottingley house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.