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RG20 crime rate and statistics
The RG20 postcode district, in the RG (Reading) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 448 street-crime records for RG20 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.8% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 22.5 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 83.4 for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
448
Latest month (August 2026)
24
Year-on-year
+1.8%
Month-by-month totals
520
37
Sep
52
Oct
41
Nov
33
Dec
34
Jan
27
Feb
40
Mar
33
Apr
45
May
44
Jun
38
Jul
24
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
37
October 2025
52
November 2025
41
December 2025
33
January 2026
34
February 2026
27
March 2026
40
April 2026
33
May 2026
45
June 2026
44
July 2026
38
August 2026
24
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.
RG20
22.5
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary
83.4
448 records and 19,886 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 RG20 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 offences40.0%
179 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Burglary11.6%
52 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Anti-social behaviour10.9%
49 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson10.0%
45 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Vehicle crime6.7%
30 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Public order5.8%
26 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft5.6%
25 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Other crime5.1%
23 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Where records cluster in RG20
Records by part of RG20: the south-east 1,465, the south 312, the north 147, the north-east 116, the south-west 73, the north-west 57, the centre 14, the west 12.
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 RG20's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and RG20'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 RG20 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore RG20 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for RG20 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
416
2022
473
2023
449
2024
475
2025
442
2026 (part year)
285
Is RG20 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for RG20 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 37 records a month. The busiest month was October 2025, with 52.
Records here changed by +1.8% on the 12 months before, against +1.4% across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary area, the main force here with 50.7% of RG20's records, over the same months. With 448 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 40.0% 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 RG20 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
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.
Covers 100.0% of the 19,886 Census 2021 residents of RG20.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 17.2% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
0%3
6%4
7%5
8%6
53%7
9%8
17%9
1%10
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 RG20 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.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£535,000 (110)
2025
£597,500 (228)
2024
£541,250 (216)
2023
£550,000 (164)
2022
£518,750 (224)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£710,000 (58)
£435,000 (25)
£336,500 (20)
£200,000 (7)
2025
£802,500 (132)
£455,000 (49)
£322,500 (38)
£200,000 (9)
2024
£748,000 (116)
£420,000 (57)
£350,000 (37)
£211,000 (6)
2023
£772,500 (90)
£415,000 (35)
£325,000 (29)
£193,250 (10)
2022
£725,000 (116)
£450,000 (54)
£340,000 (37)
£232,000 (17)
Schools and colleges
22 open establishments with a postcode in RG20, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
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 band
Postcodes
High
30
Medium
10
Low
17
Very low
0
Broadband
Share of the 921 postcodes in RG20 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.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
44.3%
61.2%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
81.9%
92.6%
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