Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 7 secondary schools. Denefield School is the nearest published school at 181 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG3 6YW
Tilehurst & Purley · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tilehurst & Purley
- Local authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire
- Postcode district
- RG3
- Postcode sector
- RG3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG3 6YW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG3
- Postcode sector
- RG3 6
- Latitude
- 51.470288
- Longitude
- -1.054268
- British National Grid easting
- 465,785
- British National Grid northing
- 175,015
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Tilehurst & Purley · E05012153
- Parish or community
- E04001197
- Westminster constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire · E14001439
- Output area
- E00082429
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 004A · E01016315
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 004 · E02003370
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
- 45
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 7
- 181 m
Denefield School
Academy converter
- 246 m
Downsway Primary School
Community school
- 619 m
Brookfields School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 544
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 185
- Anti social behaviour 88
- Shoplifting 57
- Criminal damage and arson 47
- Other theft 44
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
TILEHURST VILLAGE SURGERY
92 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PP
ODS code K81644
1.3 km
WESTWOOD ROAD SURGERY
66 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PR
ODS code K81056
1.4 km
THE POTTERIES
TYLERS PLACE, TILEHURST, READING, RG30 6BW
ODS code K81004
2.3 km
THE BOAT HOUSE SURGERY
WHITCHURCH ROAD, PANGBOURNE, READING, RG8 7DP
ODS code K81012
2.8 km
GROVELANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
701 OXFORD ROAD, READING, RG30 1HG
ODS code K81078
3.3 km
THEALE MEDICAL CENTRE
ENGLEFIELD ROAD, THEALE, READING, RG7 5AS
ODS code K81077
4.0 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Denefield School
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.0 miles
Denefield School
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.1 miles
Denefield School Inside Grounds
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.1 miles
Addiscombe Chase
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.2 miles
Addiscombe Chase
BCT · Purley on Thames
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 004A, 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
28,948 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
544 published events cover 12 months, averaging 45.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 185 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.