RG22 crime rate and statistics

The RG22 postcode district, in the RG (Reading) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 3,044 street-crime records for RG22 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.6% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 71.7 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.

Last 12 published months

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

Street-crime records

3,044

Latest month (August 2026)

305

Year-on-year

+2.6%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 235
October 2025 276
November 2025 231
December 2025 228
January 2026 255
February 2026 218
March 2026 268
April 2026 216
May 2026 303
June 2026 244
July 2026 265
August 2026 305

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.

RG22

71.7

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

83.4

3,044 records and 42,443 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 RG22 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 RG22

Published street-crime records in RG22, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of RG22: the south-west 587, the north 514, the north-west 486, the north-east 376, the east 373, the south 344, the south-east 212, the west 155, the centre 34.

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 RG22's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and RG22'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 RG22 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore RG22 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for RG22 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 3,045
2022 3,298
2023 3,071
2024 2,987
2025 2,976
2026 (part year) 2,074

Is RG22 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for RG22 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in RG22 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

RG22's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary (99.9%), Bedfordshire Police (0.1%), Humberside Police (0.0%) and Metropolitan Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in RG22

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

Sector Street-crime records
RG22 4 1,340
RG22 5 548
RG22 6 1,156

Council area

RG22 is in the Basingstoke and Deane 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 42,443 Census 2021 residents of RG22.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 7.2% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 45.3% 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 RG22 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) £350,000 (288)
2025 £350,000 (554)
2024 £340,000 (488)
2023 £350,000 (459)
2022 £325,000 (569)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £535,000 (73) £375,000 (74) £311,000 (106) £195,000 (35)
2025 £518,750 (166) £375,000 (116) £310,000 (220) £177,500 (52)
2024 £480,000 (137) £370,000 (107) £300,000 (204) £175,000 (40)
2023 £492,500 (130) £365,000 (99) £300,550 (176) £170,500 (54)
2022 £500,000 (133) £365,000 (137) £293,750 (214) £190,000 (85)

Schools and colleges

17 open establishments with a postcode in RG22, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 17 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Chalk Ridge Primary School Primary Community school
Chiltern Primary School Primary Community school
Hatch Warren Infant School Primary Community school
Hatch Warren Junior School Primary Community school
Kempshott Infant School Primary Community school
Kempshott Junior School Primary Community school
Manor Field Infant School Primary Community school
Manor Field Junior School Primary Community school
Park View Primary School Primary Community school
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
St Mark's Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary School Secondary Voluntary aided school
Brighton Hill Community School Secondary Academy converter
The Blue Coat School Basingstoke Secondary Academy sponsor led
Chiltern Way Academy Basingstoke – Academy special sponsor led
Inclusion School – Other independent special school
Limington House 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
High3
Medium0
Low0
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 776 postcodes in RG22 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
Gigabit80.8%95.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)98.8%99.9%

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CrimeMapsUK. RG22 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/rg22/

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