Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Grange School is the nearest published school at 337 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG18 3WS
Thatcham Central · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Thatcham Central
- Local authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury
- Postcode district
- RG18
- Postcode sector
- RG18 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG18 3WS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG18
- Postcode sector
- RG18 3
- Latitude
- 51.399720
- Longitude
- -1.263946
- British National Grid easting
- 451,300
- British National Grid northing
- 167,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Thatcham Central · E05012148
- Parish or community
- E04001194
- Westminster constituency
- Newbury · E14001376
- Output area
- E00082495
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 014A · E01016329
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 014 · E02003380
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
- 3
- 337 m
The Grange School
Other independent special school
- 670 m
Spurcroft Primary School
Community school
- 839 m
Parsons Down Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,330
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 551
- Anti social behaviour 203
- Shoplifting 137
- Criminal damage and arson 98
- Public order 78
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 straight-line
THATCHAM HEALTH CENTRE
BATH ROAD, THATCHAM, RG18 3HD
ODS code K81073
491 m
BURDWOOD SURGERY
WHEELERS GREEN WAY, THATCHAM, RG19 4YF
ODS code K81102
1.4 km
EASTFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
6 ST. JOHNS ROAD, NEWBURY, RG14 7LW
ODS code K81002
4.2 km
STRAWBERRY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
STRAWBERRY HILL MED.CTR, OLD BATH ROAD, NEWBURY, RG14 1JU
ODS code K81063
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Nevil Court
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.1 miles
Nevil Court
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.1 miles
Glebelands
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.1 miles
Glebelands
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.2 miles
Wenlock Way
BCT · Thatcham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 014A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,068 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
1,330 published events cover 12 months, averaging 110.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 551 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.