Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Downs School is the nearest published school at 494 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG20 6PR
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 6PR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2001
- Terminated
- 1 April 2005
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG20
- Postcode sector
- RG20 6
- Latitude
- 51.517626
- Longitude
- -1.252061
- British National Grid easting
- 451,993
- British National Grid northing
- 180,121
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
- E00082266
- 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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 494 m
The Downs School
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- 593 m
Compton C.E. Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.7 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%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.1%
411 residents
197 residents
389 residents
522 residents
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Swan Hotel
BCT · Compton
- 0.1 miles
Swan Hotel
BCT · Compton
- 0.2 miles
Newbury Lane
BCT · Compton
- 0.2 miles
Newbury Lane
BCT · Compton
- 0.3 miles
School Cottage
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
64 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.333 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.