Property market
The five-year median is £120,000 from 7 recorded sales in RG2 8JS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Reading is £361,243 in June 2026, up 0.9% year on year.
RG2 8JS
Whitley · Reading · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG2 8JS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG2
- Postcode sector
- RG2 8
- Latitude
- 51.420220
- Longitude
- -0.957694
- British National Grid easting
- 472,572
- British National Grid northing
- 169,538
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Reading · E06000038
- Electoral ward
- Whitley · E05013879
- Parish or community
- E43000031
- Westminster constituency
- Earley and Woodley · E14001210
- Output area
- E00082700
- Lower layer super output area
- Reading 018A · E01016369
- Middle layer super output area
- Reading 018 · E02003406
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
Property
58 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 144a, Whitley Wood Road, Reading, RG2 8JS | 16 April 2025 | £340,000 |
| Southglade, Flat 17, Whitley Wood Road, Reading, RG2 8JS | 16 August 2024 | £163,500 |
| 144, Whitley Wood Road, Reading, RG2 8JS | 8 March 2024 | £270,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 11
- 330 m
Geoffrey Field Infant School
Community school
- 330 m
Geoffrey Field Junior School
Community school
- 356 m
Christ The King Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,162
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 935
- Shoplifting 249
- Anti social behaviour 167
- Criminal damage and arson 163
- Other theft 162
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- RG2 8 residents
- 13,078
20 female, 14 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG2 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
16
within 5 km
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHINFIELD HOUSE, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code Y02128
1.9 km
SOUTH READING & SHINFIELD GROUP MED PRAC
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACT, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code K81633
1.9 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
1.9 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
2.3 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
2.7 km
PEMBROKE SURGERY
31 ALEXANDRA ROAD, READING, RG1 5PG
ODS code K81100
3.2 km
PARKSIDE PRACTICE
224 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JS
ODS code K81045
3.2 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
3.4 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
3.5 km
BROOKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
BROOKSIDE SURGERY, BROOKSIDE CLOSE, EARLEY, READING, RG6 7HG
ODS code K81047
3.5 km
LONDON STREET SURGERY
72 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4SJ
ODS code K81007
3.5 km
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code K81081
4.1 km
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
4.1 km
CHATHAM STREET SURGERY
121 CHATHAM STREET, READING, RG1 7JE
ODS code K81026
4.3 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
4.6 km
SWALLOWFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE STREET, SWALLOWFIELD, READING, RG7 1QY
ODS code K81003
4.7 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
Woodside Way
BCT · Whitley Wood
- 0.1 miles
Northumberland Avenue Terminus
BCT · Whitley Wood
- 0.1 miles
Northumberland Avenue Terminus
BCT · Whitley Wood
- 0.1 miles
Wentworth Avenue
BCT · Whitley Wood
- 0.1 miles
Gratton Road
BCT · Whitley Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Reading 018A, 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
17,990 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 11 secondary schools. Geoffrey Field Infant School is the nearest published school at 330 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,162 published events cover 12 months, averaging 180.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 935 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.