Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 7 secondary schools. Park Lane Primary School is the nearest published school at 76 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG3 5BT
Tilehurst · Reading · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tilehurst
- Local authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire
- Postcode district
- RG3
- Postcode sector
- RG3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG3 5BT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG3
- Postcode sector
- RG3 5
- Latitude
- 51.457423
- Longitude
- -1.044574
- British National Grid easting
- 466,477
- British National Grid northing
- 173,593
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Reading · E06000038
- Electoral ward
- Tilehurst · E05013878
- Parish or community
- E43000031
- Westminster constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire · E14001439
- Output area
- E00082998
- Lower layer super output area
- Reading 005E · E01016432
- Middle layer super output area
- Reading 005 · E02003393
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 RG3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 7
- 76 m
Park Lane Primary School
Community school
- 441 m
Birch Copse Primary School
Community school
- 624 m
St Paul's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,486
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 493
- Shoplifting 360
- Anti social behaviour 137
- Criminal damage and arson 98
- Other theft 95
GP practices
11
within 5 km straight-line
WESTWOOD ROAD SURGERY
66 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PR
ODS code K81056
379 m
TILEHURST VILLAGE SURGERY
92 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PP
ODS code K81644
454 m
THE POTTERIES
TYLERS PLACE, TILEHURST, READING, RG30 6BW
ODS code K81004
1.4 km
GROVELANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
701 OXFORD ROAD, READING, RG30 1HG
ODS code K81078
2.4 km
THEALE MEDICAL CENTRE
ENGLEFIELD ROAD, THEALE, READING, RG7 5AS
ODS code K81077
3.3 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
3.6 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
4.3 km
THE BOAT HOUSE SURGERY
WHITCHURCH ROAD, PANGBOURNE, READING, RG8 7DP
ODS code K81012
4.3 km
CHATHAM STREET SURGERY
121 CHATHAM STREET, READING, RG1 7JE
ODS code K81026
4.4 km
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code K81081
4.8 km
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Chapel Hill
BCT · Tilehurst
- 0.0 miles
Chapel Hill
BCT · Tilehurst
- 0.0 miles
Chapel Hill
BCT · Tilehurst
- 0.1 miles
Chapel Hill
BCT · Tilehurst
- 0.1 miles
Chapel Hill Lower Elmstone Drive
BCT · Tilehurst
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Reading 005E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,113 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
1,486 published events cover 12 months, averaging 123.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 493 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.