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.

Last 12 published months

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

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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.

Where records cluster in RG7

Published street-crime records in RG7, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

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.

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

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Police forces

RG7's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Thames Valley Police (96.2%), Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary (3.5%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Avon and Somerset Police (0.0%), Durham Constabulary (0.0%), Leicestershire Police (0.0%) and South Yorkshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in RG7

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

Sector Street-crime records
RG7 1 467
RG7 2 68
RG7 3 792
RG7 4 174
RG7 5 399
RG7 6 130

Council areas

RG7 is mostly in the West Berkshire council area, and also covers parts of the Wokingham council area and 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 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%.

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.

YearAll 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 DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
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.

Show the 25 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Aldermaston C.E. Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Beenham Primary School Primary Community school
Bradfield C.E. Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Brimpton C.E. Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Bucklebury C.E. Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Englefield C.E. Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Garland Junior School Primary Community school
Grazeley Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
Lambs Lane Primary School Primary Academy converter
Mortimer St. John's C.E. Infant School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Mortimer St Mary's C.E. Junior School Primary Voluntary aided school
Mrs Bland's Infant School Primary Community school
Silchester Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Sulhamstead and Ufton Nervet School Primary Voluntary aided school
Theale C.E. Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Woolhampton C.E. Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Oakbank School Secondary Free schools
Theale Green School Secondary Academy sponsor led
The Willink School Secondary Community school
Bradfield College – Other independent school
Elstree School – Other independent school
Haywards Farm School – Other independent special school
Riseley Green School – Other independent special school
The Mile House Therapeutic School – Other independent special school
The Vine Christian 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
High74
Medium22
Low39
Very low3

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.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit73.6%86.6%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)90.4%96.7%

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CrimeMapsUK. RG7 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/rg7/

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