Prescot South
WardEast Knowsley. About 10,352 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 59% of people in Prescot South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Prescot South compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Prescot South safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Prescot South at a rate of 107.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 91.5 per 1,000 people across Knowsley.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 99 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Prescot South.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (516), other crime (207) and shoplifting (102).
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.
Figures for the whole of Knowsley
These figures are published for the whole of Knowsley, not for each ward, so they describe all of Knowsley and not Prescot South alone. See Knowsley
Prescot South in brief
Prescot South had 10,124 usual residents at the census.
About 59% of people in Prescot South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Prescot South, 99.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Prescot South, 4.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.