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RG16 crime statistics
The RG16 postcode district, in the RG (Reading) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 475 street-crime records for RG16 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 9.9% fewer than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
475
Latest month (August 2026)
42
Year-on-year
-9.9%
Month-by-month totals
590
29
Sep
59
Oct
54
Nov
35
Dec
29
Jan
37
Feb
39
Mar
26
Apr
42
May
36
Jun
47
Jul
42
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
29
October 2025
59
November 2025
54
December 2025
35
January 2026
29
February 2026
37
March 2026
39
April 2026
26
May 2026
42
June 2026
36
July 2026
47
August 2026
42
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
No Census 2021 residents are recorded for these postcodes, so no rate is shown.
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 RG16 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences41.3%
196 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Criminal damage and arson12.0%
57 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order8.4%
40 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Anti-social behaviour7.8%
37 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Other theft7.2%
34 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Vehicle crime6.5%
31 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Burglary5.7%
27 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Other crime4.0%
19 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for RG16 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
395
2022
547
2023
538
2024
530
2025
488
2026 (part year)
298
Is RG16 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for RG16 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 40 records a month. The busiest month was October 2025, with 59.
Records here changed by -9.9% on the 12 months before, against +2.1% across the Thames Valley Police area, the main force here with 98.9% of RG16's records, over the same months. With 475 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 41.3% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in RG16 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
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