RG28 crime rate and statistics

The RG28 postcode district, in the RG (Reading) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 299 street-crime records for RG28 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 12.4% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 46.6 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

299

Latest month (August 2026)

25

Year-on-year

+12.4%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 26
October 2025 11
November 2025 28
December 2025 13
January 2026 24
February 2026 11
March 2026 25
April 2026 31
May 2026 22
June 2026 34
July 2026 49
August 2026 25

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.

RG28

46.6

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

83.4

299 records and 6,414 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 RG28 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 RG28

Published street-crime records in RG28, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of RG28: the south 219, the south-east 38, the south-west 16, the north 2, the east 2.

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 RG28's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and RG28'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 RG28 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore RG28 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for RG28 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 266
2022 369
2023 284
2024 314
2025 227
2026 (part year) 221

Is RG28 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for RG28 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in RG28 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

RG28's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary (99.7%) and Wiltshire Police (0.3%).

Postcode sectors in RG28

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

Sector Street-crime records
RG28 7 299

Council area

RG28 is mostly 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 6,414 Census 2021 residents of RG28.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 28.7% 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 RG28 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) £430,000 (52)
2025 £400,000 (101)
2024 £394,000 (74)
2023 £375,000 (95)
2022 £385,000 (124)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £665,000 (14) £430,000 (19) £377,500 (12) £155,000 (7)
2025 £565,000 (28) £421,500 (31) £325,000 (33) £170,000 (9)
2024 £597,500 (14) £399,975 (28) £313,750 (28) – (4)
2023 £590,000 (24) £375,000 (26) £332,500 (35) £162,250 (10)
2022 £575,000 (38) £368,500 (32) £327,500 (43) £185,000 (11)

Schools and colleges

2 open establishments with a postcode in RG28, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 2 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Whitchurch Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Testbourne Community School Secondary Foundation 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
High18
Medium3
Low12
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 237 postcodes in RG28 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
Gigabit27.8%45.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)74.3%89.5%

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CrimeMapsUK. RG28 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/rg28/

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