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RG7 crime rate and statistics
The RG7 postcode district, in the RG (Reading) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,030 street-crime records for RG7 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 4.9% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 55.8 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
2,030
Latest month (August 2026)
187
Year-on-year
+4.9%
Month-by-month totals
2090
189
Sep
194
Oct
141
Nov
148
Dec
144
Jan
138
Feb
164
Mar
158
Apr
176
May
182
Jun
209
Jul
187
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
189
October 2025
194
November 2025
141
December 2025
148
January 2026
144
February 2026
138
March 2026
164
April 2026
158
May 2026
176
June 2026
182
July 2026
209
August 2026
187
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.
RG7
55.8
Thames Valley Police
78.4
2,030 records and 36,357 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 RG7 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 offences32.7%
664 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour16.1%
326 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson12.1%
246 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting9.0%
182 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft7.7%
157 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order6.5%
132 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Burglary5.4%
109 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Vehicle crime4.0%
82 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in RG7
Records by part of RG7: the east 937, the north-east 800, the south-west 478, the north 293, the west 290, the south 288, the centre 232, the south-east 119, the north-west 102.
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 RG7's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and RG7'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 RG7 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore RG7 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for RG7 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,814
2022
1,919
2023
2,052
2024
2,022
2025
1,965
2026 (part year)
1,358
Is RG7 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for RG7 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 169 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 209.
Records here changed by +4.9% on the 12 months before, against +2.1% across the Thames Valley Police area, the main force here with 96.2% of RG7's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 32.7% 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 RG7 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 36,357 Census 2021 residents of RG7.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 34.7% in the least deprived 20%.
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0%2
0%3
0%4
4%5
20%6
25%7
18%8
19%9
16%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 RG7 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)
£465,000 (262)
2025
£460,000 (559)
2024
£470,000 (449)
2023
£450,000 (358)
2022
£450,000 (624)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£675,000 (97)
£447,500 (82)
£352,500 (51)
£256,000 (32)
2025
£670,000 (215)
£450,000 (158)
£345,000 (102)
£243,500 (84)
2024
£650,000 (197)
£447,500 (124)
£360,000 (69)
£245,000 (59)
2023
£675,000 (127)
£445,000 (109)
£360,000 (65)
£240,000 (57)
2022
£648,725 (242)
£440,000 (175)
£355,000 (100)
£252,500 (107)
Schools and colleges
25 open establishments with a postcode in RG7, 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
74
Medium
22
Low
39
Very low
3
Broadband
Share of the 1,479 postcodes in RG7 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
73.6%
86.6%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
90.4%
96.7%
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