Schools
74 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 13 secondary schools. Hartland High School is the nearest published school at 487 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG2 8BH
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG2 8BH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG2
- Postcode sector
- RG2 8
- Latitude
- 51.424472
- Longitude
- -0.968700
- British National Grid easting
- 471,800
- British National Grid northing
- 170,000
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
- E00083050
- Lower layer super output area
- Reading 017D · E01016438
- 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
- 74
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 13
- 487 m
Hartland High School
Academy sponsor led
- 565 m
Christ The King Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 577 m
Geoffrey Field Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,682
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,035
- Shoplifting 402
- Other theft 210
- Anti social behaviour 194
- Criminal damage and arson 186
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG2 8 residents
- 13,078
Age bands in RG2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.2%
2,720 residents
1,684 residents
3,736 residents
3,273 residents
1,733 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
16
within 5 km straight-line
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
1.3 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
2.0 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
2.1 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
2.6 km
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHINFIELD HOUSE, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code Y02128
2.7 km
SOUTH READING & SHINFIELD GROUP MED PRAC
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACT, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code K81633
2.7 km
PEMBROKE SURGERY
31 ALEXANDRA ROAD, READING, RG1 5PG
ODS code K81100
2.9 km
LONDON STREET SURGERY
72 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4SJ
ODS code K81007
3.0 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
3.1 km
PARKSIDE PRACTICE
224 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JS
ODS code K81045
3.4 km
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code K81081
3.4 km
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
3.4 km
CHATHAM STREET SURGERY
121 CHATHAM STREET, READING, RG1 7JE
ODS code K81026
3.6 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
3.9 km
BROOKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
BROOKSIDE SURGERY, BROOKSIDE CLOSE, EARLEY, READING, RG6 7HG
ODS code K81047
4.1 km
GROVELANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
701 OXFORD ROAD, READING, RG30 1HG
ODS code K81078
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hartland Road
BCT · Whitley Wood
- 0.1 miles
Hartland Road
BCT · Whitley Wood
- 0.1 miles
Hartland Road
BCT · Whitley Wood
- 0.2 miles
Bennet Road
BCT · Whitley Wood
- 0.2 miles
Bennet Road
BCT · Whitley Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Reading 017D, 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
4,544 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2,682 published events cover 12 months, averaging 223.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,035 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.