RG14 crime rate and statistics

The RG14 postcode district, in the RG (Reading) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 3,426 street-crime records for RG14 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.3% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 80.9 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 78.4 for Thames Valley Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

3,426

Latest month (August 2026)

300

Year-on-year

-2.3%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 298
October 2025 274
November 2025 293
December 2025 287
January 2026 255
February 2026 212
March 2026 285
April 2026 266
May 2026 333
June 2026 281
July 2026 342
August 2026 300

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

RG14

80.9

Thames Valley Police

78.4

3,426 records and 42,353 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of RG14 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in RG14

Published street-crime records in RG14, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of RG14: the south 2,385, the south-east 633, the south-west 425, the east 317, the west 128, the north 102, the north-west 66, the north-east 48, the centre 25.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 300 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of RG14's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and RG14's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of RG14 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore RG14 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for RG14 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 3,165
2022 3,673
2023 3,678
2024 3,421
2025 3,496
2026 (part year) 2,274

Is RG14 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for RG14 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in RG14 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

RG14's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Thames Valley Police (99.9%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%) and Wiltshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in RG14

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
RG14 1 474
RG14 2 533
RG14 3 35
RG14 5 983
RG14 6 350
RG14 7 1,051

Council area

RG14 is in the West Berkshire council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 42,353 Census 2021 residents of RG14.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 3.5% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 29.7% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About RG14 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £360,000 (399)
2025 £350,750 (786)
2024 £375,000 (707)
2023 £373,975 (624)
2022 £359,500 (868)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £635,000 (82) £412,600 (99) £345,000 (92) £210,000 (126)
2025 £585,000 (168) £405,000 (187) £344,000 (176) £210,000 (255)
2024 £599,000 (198) £400,000 (167) £338,625 (148) £195,000 (194)
2023 £569,000 (152) £418,000 (129) £350,000 (165) £208,750 (178)
2022 £599,500 (180) £400,000 (217) £348,000 (186) £220,000 (285)

Schools and colleges

22 open establishments with a postcode in RG14, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 22 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Newbury College 16 plus Further education
Victoria Park Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Falkland Primary School Primary Community school
Fir Tree Primary School and Nursery Primary Academy sponsor led
John Rankin Infant and Nursery School Primary Academy converter
John Rankin Junior School Primary Academy sponsor led
Robert Sandilands Primary School and Nursery Primary Community school
Shaw-cum-Donnington C.E. Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Speenhamland School Primary Academy converter
St John the Evangelist CofE Infant and Nursery School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Nicolas C.E. Junior School Primary Voluntary aided school
The Willows Primary School Primary Community school
The Winchcombe School Primary Community school
Park House School Secondary Academy converter
St Bartholomew's School Secondary Academy converter
Trinity School Secondary Academy converter
Engaging Potential – Other independent special school
iCollege Alternative Provision – Pupil referral unit
Mary Hare School – Non-maintained special school
Northcroft Vocational School – Other independent special school
The Castle School – Community special school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High62
Medium63
Low114
Very low15

Broadband

Share of the 1,218 postcodes in RG14 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit69.9%84.2%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)95.5%98.7%

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CrimeMapsUK. RG14 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/rg14/

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