Schools
82 open schools are in scope, including 48 primary and 13 secondary schools. Blagdon Nursery School is the nearest published school at 308 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG2 7PF
Church · Reading · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Church
- Local authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley
- Postcode district
- RG2
- Postcode sector
- RG2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG2 7PF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG2
- Postcode sector
- RG2 7
- Latitude
- 51.432500
- Longitude
- -0.961328
- British National Grid easting
- 472,300
- British National Grid northing
- 170,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Reading · E06000038
- Electoral ward
- Church · E05013868
- Parish or community
- E43000031
- Westminster constituency
- Earley and Woodley · E14001210
- Output area
- E00082711
- Lower layer super output area
- Reading 017A · E01016368
- Middle layer super output area
- Reading 017 · E02003405
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 RG2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 82
- Primary
- 48
- Secondary
- 13
- 308 m
Blagdon Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 397 m
Reading Girls' School
Academy sponsor led
- 429 m
Whitley Park Primary and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,118
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,194
- Shoplifting 393
- Other theft 273
- Anti social behaviour 235
- Criminal damage and arson 200
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG2 7 residents
- 12,811
Age bands in RG2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 28.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.9%
2,205 residents
3,697 residents
3,294 residents
2,640 residents
1,304 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
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
569 m
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
1.0 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
1.3 km
PEMBROKE SURGERY
31 ALEXANDRA ROAD, READING, RG1 5PG
ODS code K81100
1.9 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
2.1 km
LONDON STREET SURGERY
72 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4SJ
ODS code K81007
2.1 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
2.3 km
PARKSIDE PRACTICE
224 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JS
ODS code K81045
2.4 km
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code K81081
2.7 km
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
2.7 km
CHATHAM STREET SURGERY
121 CHATHAM STREET, READING, RG1 7JE
ODS code K81026
2.9 km
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHINFIELD HOUSE, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code Y02128
3.2 km
SOUTH READING & SHINFIELD GROUP MED PRAC
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACT, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code K81633
3.2 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
3.4 km
BROOKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
BROOKSIDE SURGERY, BROOKSIDE CLOSE, EARLEY, READING, RG6 7HG
ODS code K81047
3.5 km
BALMORE PARK SURGERY
59A HEMDEAN ROAD, CAVERSHAM, READING, RG4 7SS
ODS code K81014
4.4 km
GROVELANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
701 OXFORD ROAD, READING, RG30 1HG
ODS code K81078
4.6 km
WOODLEY PRACTICE
WOODLEY CENTRE SURGERY, 6 HEADLEY ROAD, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4JA
ODS code K81051
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Whitley
- 0.1 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Whitley
- 0.1 miles
Staverton Road
BCT · Whitley
- 0.1 miles
Staverton Road
BCT · Whitley
- 0.1 miles
Buckland Road Circle
BCT · Whitley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Reading 017A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,459 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
3,118 published events cover 12 months, averaging 259.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,194 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.