Schools
92 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 13 secondary schools. Civitas Academy is the nearest published school at 448 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG1 8HZ
Battle · Reading · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Battle
- Local authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central
- Postcode district
- RG1
- Postcode sector
- RG1 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG1 8HZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG1
- Postcode sector
- RG1 8
- Latitude
- 51.460583
- Longitude
- -0.985160
- British National Grid easting
- 470,600
- British National Grid northing
- 174,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Reading · E06000038
- Electoral ward
- Battle · E05013865
- Parish or community
- E43000031
- Westminster constituency
- Reading Central · E14001438
- Output area
- E00082625
- Lower layer super output area
- Reading 007B · E01016358
- Middle layer super output area
- Reading 007 · E02003395
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore RG1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 92
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 13
- 448 m
Civitas Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 526 m
River Academy
Free schools
- 552 m
Oxford Road Community School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,084
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,669
- Shoplifting 1,338
- Public order 754
- Other theft 689
- Anti social behaviour 666
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG1 8 residents
- 2,738
Age bands in RG1 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 49.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 6.1%
379 residents
371 residents
1,525 residents
623 residents
188 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
18
within 5 km straight-line
CHATHAM STREET SURGERY
121 CHATHAM STREET, READING, RG1 7JE
ODS code K81026
599 m
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
736 m
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code K81081
910 m
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
910 m
BALMORE PARK SURGERY
59A HEMDEAN ROAD, CAVERSHAM, READING, RG4 7SS
ODS code K81014
1.4 km
LONDON STREET SURGERY
72 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4SJ
ODS code K81007
1.6 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
1.7 km
GROVELANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
701 OXFORD ROAD, READING, RG30 1HG
ODS code K81078
1.7 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
2.0 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
2.2 km
PEMBROKE SURGERY
31 ALEXANDRA ROAD, READING, RG1 5PG
ODS code K81100
2.7 km
EMMER GREEN SURGERY
4 ST. BARNABAS ROAD, EMMER GREEN, READING, RG4 8RA
ODS code K81041
2.7 km
THE POTTERIES
TYLERS PLACE, TILEHURST, READING, RG30 6BW
ODS code K81004
2.8 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
3.0 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
3.1 km
PARKSIDE PRACTICE
224 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JS
ODS code K81045
3.9 km
WESTWOOD ROAD SURGERY
66 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PR
ODS code K81056
3.9 km
TILEHURST VILLAGE SURGERY
92 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PP
ODS code K81644
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
River Academy
BCT · Rivermead
- 0.2 miles
Rivermead Leisure Centre
BCT · Rivermead
- 0.2 miles
Reading Buses Depot
BCT · Reading Town Centre
- 0.3 miles
Rivermead Leisure Centre
BCT · Rivermead
- 0.3 miles
Rivermead Leisure Centre
BCT · Rivermead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Reading 007B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,540 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
8,084 published events cover 12 months, averaging 673.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,669 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.