Crime in RG21 5

The RG21 5 postcode sector, in the RG (Reading) postcode area, with most records published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 653 street-crime records for RG21 5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 10.9% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 83.1 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.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

653

Share of RG21

15.1%

Year-on-year

-10.9%

RG21 5 holds 15.1% of the 4,316 records assigned to RG21 in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	59
October 2025	45
November 2025	48
December 2025	37
January 2026	56
February 2026	68
March 2026	64
April 2026	49
May 2026	59
June 2026	42
July 2026	65
August 2026	61

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.

RG21 5

83.1

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

83.4

653 records and 7,862 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.

Category mix compared

Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary.

Category	RG21 5	RG21	Force
Violence and sexual offences	40.1%	38.9%	39.8%
Shoplifting	13.0%	10.7%	9.2%
Anti-social behaviour	12.7%	14.1%	12.5%
Public order	8.6%	8.6%	8.3%
Criminal damage and arson	8.0%	7.6%	7.3%
Other theft	4.9%	6.0%	6.5%
Vehicle crime	2.6%	2.5%	4.1%
Drugs	2.6%	3.5%	3.4%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for RG21 5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	526
2022	614
2023	647
2024	675
2025	647
2026 (part year)	464

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 sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Full detail is on the methodology page and in what a postcode district crime page shows, which covers sectors too.

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Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district in Hampshire

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 7,862 Census 2021 residents of RG21 5.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

0% 1

0% 2

25% 3

33% 4

0% 5

17% 6

5% 7

21% 8

0% 9

0% 10

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.

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This page updates as new months are published, so a citation needs the months shown and the date you read it. One click selects the whole citation. The CSV holds this page's monthly and category figures for RG21 5 postcode sector, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. RG21 5 postcode sector: 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/sectors/rg21-5/

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