Prescot
TownTown in Knowsley and St. Helens, North West.
Prescot is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Prescot 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Prescot, 97.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Prescot compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Prescot safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Prescot at a rate of 99.5 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, 365 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Prescot.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,633), other crime (688) and anti-social behaviour (501).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Prescot was 92.3 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 Prescot, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Prescot has no single figure. Of its 26 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Prescot
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knowsley 007A | 1,533 | 162.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.7% |
| Knowsley 007B | 1,441 | 80.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Knowsley 007D | 2,666 | 79.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.3% |
| Knowsley 007E | 1,490 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Knowsley 007F | 1,212 | 479.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.8% |
| Knowsley 007G | 1,125 | 368.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.6% |
| Knowsley 009A | 1,630 | 71.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Knowsley 009B | 1,700 | 37.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Knowsley 009C | 1,401 | 104.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Knowsley 009D | 1,573 | 53.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Knowsley 009E | 1,928 | 176.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| Knowsley 013A | 1,114 | 76.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Knowsley 013B | 1,049 | 95.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Knowsley 013C | 1,379 | 85.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.7% |
| Knowsley 013D | 1,187 | 145.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.1% |
| Knowsley 013E | 1,673 | 115.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Knowsley 017C | 1,645 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.2% |
| St. Helens 018C | 2,130 | 26.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.1% |
| St. Helens 021A | 1,394 | 30.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| St. Helens 021B | 1,356 | 40.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| St. Helens 021C | 1,325 | 125.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.0% |
| St. Helens 021D | 1,368 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| St. Helens 023A | 1,194 | 36.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| St. Helens 023B | 1,379 | 64.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.7% |
| St. Helens 023C | 1,605 | 69.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
| St. Helens 023D | 1,398 | 19.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.4% |
Your MP
- Ms Marie RimmerLabourMP for St Helens South and Whiston
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Prescot sits in2
Postcode districts covering Prescot2
Middle areas in Prescot5
Towns near Prescot6
Prescot in brief
Prescot is a town in Knowsley and St. Helens, North West.
About 41,242 people lived in Prescot in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £227,250 in 2025 across 642 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 99.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Prescot was £227,250 in 2025.
Prescot had 39,227 usual residents at the census.
In Prescot, 97.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Prescot, 3.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.