Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Grange School is the nearest published school at 368 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG18 3GX
Thatcham North East · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Thatcham North East
- Local authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury
- Postcode district
- RG18
- Postcode sector
- RG18 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG18 3GX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG18
- Postcode sector
- RG18 3
- Latitude
- 51.404201
- Longitude
- -1.261545
- British National Grid easting
- 451,462
- British National Grid northing
- 167,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Thatcham North East · E05012150
- Parish or community
- E04001194
- Westminster constituency
- Newbury · E14001376
- Output area
- E00082484
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 016C · E01016332
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 016 · E02003382
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 RG18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 2
- 368 m
The Grange School
Other independent special school
- 401 m
Thatcham Park CofE Primary
Voluntary controlled school
- 626 m
Whitelands Park Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,356
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 559
- Anti social behaviour 209
- Shoplifting 137
- Criminal damage and arson 98
- Public order 79
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG18 3 residents
- 7,278
Age bands in RG18 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
1,173 residents
673 residents
1,660 residents
1,787 residents
1,266 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
4
within 5 km
THATCHAM HEALTH CENTRE
BATH ROAD, THATCHAM, RG18 3HD
ODS code K81073
61 m
BURDWOOD SURGERY
WHEELERS GREEN WAY, THATCHAM, RG19 4YF
ODS code K81102
1.5 km
EASTFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
6 ST. JOHNS ROAD, NEWBURY, RG14 7LW
ODS code K81002
4.4 km
STRAWBERRY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
STRAWBERRY HILL MED.CTR, OLD BATH ROAD, NEWBURY, RG14 1JU
ODS code K81063
4.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.1 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.2 miles
Thatcham Broadway
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.2 miles
Broadway Taxi Rank
TXR · Thatcham
- 0.2 miles
Broadway taxi rank
TXR · Thatcham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 016C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,959 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,356 published events cover 12 months, averaging 113 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 559 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.