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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.
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
2020
138
Sep
166
Oct
154
Nov
161
Dec
163
Jan
160
Feb
163
Mar
178
Apr
202
May
200
Jun
166
Jul
180
Aug
Show as a table
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.
Violence and sexual offences34.6%
702 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Shoplifting18.8%
382 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Anti-social behaviour9.1%
185 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Other theft7.6%
155 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Criminal damage and arson7.0%
143 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order6.0%
122 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Vehicle crime4.9%
100 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Burglary4.1%
84 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in RG4
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.
About 169 records a month. The busiest month was May 2026, with 202.
Records here changed by +11.3% on the 12 months before, against +2.1% across the Thames Valley Police area, the main force here with 99.9% of RG4's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 34.6% 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 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
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 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%.
0%1
5%2
0%3
0%4
0%5
4%6
4%7
17%8
17%9
53%10
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.
Year
All 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
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
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.
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
59
Medium
59
Low
34
Very low
0
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.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
79.2%
89.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
95.8%
98.2%
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