Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Downs School is the nearest published school at 1 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG20 6AD
Ridgeway · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ridgeway
- Local authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire
- Postcode district
- RG20
- Postcode sector
- RG20 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG20 6AD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2008
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG20
- Postcode sector
- RG20 6
- Latitude
- 51.513256
- Longitude
- -1.253372
- British National Grid easting
- 451,907
- British National Grid northing
- 179,634
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Ridgeway · E05012147
- Parish or community
- E04001164
- Westminster constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire · E14001439
- Output area
- E00082264
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 001B · E01016286
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 001 · E02003367
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 RG20
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 1 m
The Downs School
Academy converter
- 469 m
Compton C.E. Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
The Ilsleys Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 64
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 32
- Other crime 13
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Vehicle crime 3
- Burglary 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG20 6 residents
- 1,643
Age bands in RG20 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23%
- 411 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- 197 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- 389 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- 522 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 15.1%
- 270 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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 190 m
The Downs School
BCT · Compton
- 316 m
Newbury Lane
BCT · Compton
- 323 m
Swan Hotel
BCT · Compton
- 328 m
Newbury Lane
BCT · Compton
- 340 m
Swan Hotel
BCT · Compton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 001B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,737 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
64 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.