RG18 crime rate and statistics

The RG18 postcode district, in the RG (Reading) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 486 street-crime records for RG18 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 6.9% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 24.3 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

486

Latest month (August 2026)

33

Year-on-year

-6.9%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 48
October 2025 35
November 2025 34
December 2025 36
January 2026 50
February 2026 21
March 2026 47
April 2026 26
May 2026 55
June 2026 52
July 2026 49
August 2026 33

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.

RG18

24.3

Thames Valley Police

78.4

486 records and 19,998 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 RG18 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 RG18

Published street-crime records in RG18, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of RG18: the south 1,016, the south-west 564, the north-west 60, the west 59, the north 33, the north-east 17, the centre 7, the east 6, the south-east 5.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of RG18's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and RG18'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 RG18 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore RG18 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for RG18 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 613
2022 631
2023 512
2024 534
2025 511
2026 (part year) 333

Is RG18 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for RG18 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in RG18 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

RG18's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Thames Valley Police (99.2%), Metropolitan Police (0.4%), Suffolk Constabulary (0.2%) and Wiltshire Police (0.2%).

Postcode sectors in RG18

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

Sector Street-crime records
RG18 0 22
RG18 3 195
RG18 4 151
RG18 9 118

Council area

RG18 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 19,998 Census 2021 residents of RG18.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 57.8% 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 RG18 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) £385,000 (138)
2025 £440,375 (270)
2024 £402,500 (207)
2023 £405,000 (197)
2022 £395,000 (247)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £585,000 (46) £370,000 (51) £323,500 (27) £206,000 (14)
2025 £650,000 (129) £370,000 (77) £328,000 (47) £210,000 (17)
2024 £572,000 (92) £365,000 (69) £333,500 (36) £175,000 (10)
2023 £637,500 (84) £376,000 (63) £312,500 (26) £201,000 (24)
2022 £578,150 (105) £370,000 (69) £325,500 (52) £192,500 (21)

Schools and colleges

11 open establishments with a postcode in RG18, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 11 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Cold Ash St Mark's CE Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Curridge Primary School Primary Community school
Hampstead Norreys C.E. Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Hermitage Primary School Primary Community school
St Finian's Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Thatcham Park CofE Primary Primary Voluntary controlled school
Whitelands Park Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Yattendon C.E. Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Brockhurst and Marlston House Schools – Other independent school
Downe House – Other independent school
Priors Court School – Other independent 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
High16
Medium1
Low7
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 536 postcodes in RG18 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
Gigabit84.7%95.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)94.8%98.9%

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CrimeMapsUK. RG18 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/rg18/

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