Property market
The five-year median is £390,000 from 3 recorded sales in RG31 5HF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Reading is £361,243 in June 2026, up 0.9% year on year.
RG31 5HF
Tilehurst · Reading · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG31 5HF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG31
- Postcode sector
- RG31 5
- Latitude
- 51.459730
- Longitude
- -1.045188
- British National Grid easting
- 466,431
- British National Grid northing
- 173,849
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
- E00082995
- 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 RG31
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Oak View, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 5HF | 28 March 2024 | £327,000 |
| 5, Oak View, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 5HF | 13 October 2023 | £390,000 |
| 10, Oak View, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 5HF | 22 February 2023 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 7
- 303 m
Park Lane Primary School
Community school
- 484 m
Birch Copse Primary School
Community school
- 660 m
Blagrave Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,469
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 476
- Shoplifting 363
- Anti social behaviour 138
- Criminal damage and arson 95
- Other theft 91
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 27
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- RG31 5 residents
- 7,178
13 female, 14 male
Age bands in RG31 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,268 residents
632 residents
1,544 residents
1,849 residents
1,468 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG31 5 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
11
within 5 km
WESTWOOD ROAD SURGERY
66 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PR
ODS code K81056
237 m
TILEHURST VILLAGE SURGERY
92 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PP
ODS code K81644
264 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
2.5 km
THEALE MEDICAL CENTRE
ENGLEFIELD ROAD, THEALE, READING, RG7 5AS
ODS code K81077
3.4 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
3.7 km
THE BOAT HOUSE SURGERY
WHITCHURCH ROAD, PANGBOURNE, READING, RG8 7DP
ODS code K81012
4.1 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
4.4 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
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
Ashton Close
BCT · Tilehurst
- 0.1 miles
Ashton Close
BCT · Tilehurst
- 0.1 miles
Chapel Hill Lower Elmstone Drive
BCT · Tilehurst
- 0.1 miles
Chapel Hill Lower Elmstone Drive
BCT · Tilehurst
- 0.1 miles
Normanstead Road
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.
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
51 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 7 secondary schools. Park Lane Primary School is the nearest published school at 303 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,469 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 476 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.