RG4 crime rate and statistics

The RG4 postcode district, in the RG (Reading) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,031 street-crime records for RG4 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 11.3% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 49.6 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

2,031

Latest month (August 2026)

180

Year-on-year

+11.3%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 138
October 2025 166
November 2025 154
December 2025 161
January 2026 163
February 2026 160
March 2026 163
April 2026 178
May 2026 202
June 2026 200
July 2026 166
August 2026 180

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.

RG4

49.6

Thames Valley Police

78.4

2,031 records and 40,929 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 RG4 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 RG4

Published street-crime records in RG4, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of RG4: the south 2,385, the south-west 922, the south-east 710, the centre 174, the north 147, the west 105, the east 100, the north-west 87, the north-east 6.

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 RG4's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and RG4'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 RG4 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore RG4 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for RG4 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 1,863
2022 2,132
2023 2,038
2024 1,877
2025 1,853
2026 (part year) 1,412

Is RG4 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for RG4 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in RG4 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

RG4's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Thames Valley Police (99.9%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%) and Metropolitan Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in RG4

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

Sector Street-crime records
RG4 0 385
RG4 5 214
RG4 6 131
RG4 7 266
RG4 8 815
RG4 9 220

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 40,929 Census 2021 residents of RG4.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 4.8% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 69.8% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

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 RG4 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) £485,000 (313)
2025 £490,000 (609)
2024 £475,000 (536)
2023 £525,000 (563)
2022 £485,000 (627)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £765,000 (91) £525,000 (81) £400,000 (87) £244,000 (54)
2025 £730,000 (191) £525,000 (185) £400,000 (121) £256,500 (112)
2024 £715,000 (179) £497,475 (152) £385,000 (108) £270,000 (97)
2023 £780,000 (205) £525,000 (157) £410,000 (109) £273,000 (92)
2022 £831,500 (194) £538,750 (182) £397,126 (154) £250,000 (97)

Schools and colleges

22 open establishments with a postcode in RG4, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 22 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Caversham Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
New Bridge Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Caversham Park Primary School Primary Community school
Caversham Primary School Primary Community school
Emmer Green Primary School Primary Community school
Kidmore End Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
Micklands Primary School Primary Community school
Sonning Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
Sonning Common Primary School Primary Community school
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Martin's Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Thameside Primary School Primary Community school
The Heights Primary School Primary Free schools
The Hill Primary School Primary Community school
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre Secondary Academy converter
Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge Secondary Academy sponsor led
Aurora Rowan School – Other independent special school
Bishopswood School – Academy special sponsor led
Caversham Preparatory School – Other independent school
Chiltern Nursery Nurse Training School – Miscellaneous
Queen Anne's School – Other independent school
Reading Blue Coat School – Other independent 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
High59
Medium59
Low34
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 997 postcodes in RG4 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
Gigabit79.2%89.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)95.8%98.2%

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CrimeMapsUK. RG4 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/rg4/

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