Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Kennet School is the nearest published school at 397 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG18 4DW
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG18 4DW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG18
- Postcode sector
- RG18 4
- Latitude
- 51.403253
- Longitude
- -1.253826
- British National Grid easting
- 452,000
- British National Grid northing
- 167,400
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
- E00082533
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 017C · E01016337
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 017 · E02003383
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
- 23
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 397 m
Kennet School
Academy converter
- 469 m
The Grange School
Other independent special school
- 551 m
Francis Baily Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,266
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 520
- Anti social behaviour 185
- Shoplifting 136
- Criminal damage and arson 96
- Other theft 73
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG18 4 residents
- 4,838
Age bands in RG18 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.7%
931 residents
556 residents
1,159 residents
1,487 residents
657 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
THATCHAM HEALTH CENTRE
BATH ROAD, THATCHAM, RG18 3HD
ODS code K81073
600 m
BURDWOOD SURGERY
WHEELERS GREEN WAY, THATCHAM, RG19 4YF
ODS code K81102
1.0 km
EASTFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
6 ST. JOHNS ROAD, NEWBURY, RG14 7LW
ODS code K81002
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ferndale Court
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.1 miles
Ferndale Court
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.2 miles
Thatcham Broadway
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.2 miles
Vincent Road
BCT · Thatcham
- 0.2 miles
Victor Road
BCT · Thatcham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 017C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,123 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
1,266 published events cover 12 months, averaging 105.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 520 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.