Property market
The five-year median is £405,000 from 1 recorded sale in RG31 4ES. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Berkshire is £402,790 in June 2026, up 0.2% year on year.
RG31 4ES
Tilehurst Birch Copse · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Reading
- Local authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire
- Postcode district
- RG31
- Postcode sector
- RG31 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG31 4ES
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG31
- Postcode sector
- RG31 4
- Latitude
- 51.450135
- Longitude
- -1.056253
- British National Grid easting
- 465,676
- British National Grid northing
- 172,772
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Tilehurst Birch Copse · E05012154
- Parish or community
- E04001197
- Westminster constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire · E14001439
- Output area
- E00172659
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 005A · E01016258
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 005 · E02003371
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 RG31
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Harvest Close, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 4ES | 20 January 2022 | £405,000 |
| 8, Harvest Close, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 4ES | 26 April 2019 | £345,000 |
| 4, Harvest Close, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 4ES | 10 June 2016 | £350,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 48
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 6
- 347 m
Springfield Primary School
Community school
- 529 m
St Paul's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 568 m
Little Heath School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,041
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 353
- Shoplifting 255
- Public order 94
- Anti social behaviour 84
- Criminal damage and arson 73
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 32
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- RG31 4 residents
- 4,700
15 female, 17 male
Age bands in RG31 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.7%
813 residents
470 residents
1,075 residents
1,309 residents
959 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG31 4 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
8
within 5 km
WESTWOOD ROAD SURGERY
66 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PR
ODS code K81056
1.5 km
TILEHURST VILLAGE SURGERY
92 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PP
ODS code K81644
1.6 km
THEALE MEDICAL CENTRE
ENGLEFIELD ROAD, THEALE, READING, RG7 5AS
ODS code K81077
2.1 km
THE POTTERIES
TYLERS PLACE, TILEHURST, READING, RG30 6BW
ODS code K81004
2.4 km
GROVELANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
701 OXFORD ROAD, READING, RG30 1HG
ODS code K81078
3.4 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
4.5 km
THE BOAT HOUSE SURGERY
WHITCHURCH ROAD, PANGBOURNE, READING, RG8 7DP
ODS code K81012
4.5 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Bitterne Avenue
BCT · Turnhams Farm
- 0.1 miles
Bitterne Avenue
BCT · Turnhams Farm
- 0.2 miles
Footpath to Stratford Way
BCT · Little Heath
- 0.2 miles
Footpath to Stratford Way
BCT · Little Heath
- 0.2 miles
Springfield
BCT · Turnhams Farm
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 005A, 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
27,515 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
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
Schools
48 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 6 secondary schools. Springfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 347 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,041 published events cover 12 months, averaging 86.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 353 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.