Property market
The five-year median is £388,500 from 5 recorded sales in RG4 5AU. 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.
RG4 5AU
Caversham · Reading · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG4 5AU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG4
- Postcode sector
- RG4 5
- Latitude
- 51.466427
- Longitude
- -0.960442
- British National Grid easting
- 472,308
- British National Grid northing
- 174,674
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Reading · E06000038
- Electoral ward
- Caversham · E05013866
- Parish or community
- E43000031
- Westminster constituency
- Reading Central · E14001438
- Output area
- E00082682
- Lower layer super output area
- Reading 004E · E01016367
- Middle layer super output area
- Reading 004 · E02003392
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 RG4
Property
28 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Montague Street, Caversham, Reading, RG4 5AU | 23 February 2026 | £255,000 |
| 4, Montague Street, Caversham, Reading, RG4 5AU | 3 June 2024 | £595,000 |
| 1, Montague Street, Caversham, Reading, RG4 5AU | 12 April 2024 | £370,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 86
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 14
- 47 m
New Bridge Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 414 m
St Anne's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 430 m
Caversham Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,235
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,591
- Shoplifting 1,034
- Other theft 466
- Public order 458
- Anti social behaviour 383
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 67
- Postcode households
- 27
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- RG4 5 residents
- 6,990
31 female, 36 male
Age bands in RG4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.4%
1,519 residents
743 residents
2,260 residents
1,824 residents
979 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG4 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
17
within 5 km
BALMORE PARK SURGERY
59A HEMDEAN ROAD, CAVERSHAM, READING, RG4 7SS
ODS code K81014
1.0 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
1.6 km
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code K81081
1.7 km
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
1.7 km
LONDON STREET SURGERY
72 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4SJ
ODS code K81007
1.8 km
CHATHAM STREET SURGERY
121 CHATHAM STREET, READING, RG1 7JE
ODS code K81026
1.9 km
PEMBROKE SURGERY
31 ALEXANDRA ROAD, READING, RG1 5PG
ODS code K81100
2.1 km
EMMER GREEN SURGERY
4 ST. BARNABAS ROAD, EMMER GREEN, READING, RG4 8RA
ODS code K81041
2.1 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
2.5 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
2.6 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
2.9 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
2.9 km
PARKSIDE PRACTICE
224 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JS
ODS code K81045
3.0 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
3.4 km
GROVELANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
701 OXFORD ROAD, READING, RG30 1HG
ODS code K81078
3.5 km
WOODLEY PRACTICE
WOODLEY CENTRE SURGERY, 6 HEADLEY ROAD, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4JA
ODS code K81051
4.2 km
THE POTTERIES
TYLERS PLACE, TILEHURST, READING, RG30 6BW
ODS code K81004
4.6 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Montague Street
BCT · Lower Caversham
- 0.1 miles
Montague Street
BCT · Lower Caversham
- 0.1 miles
St Johns Road
BCT · Lower Caversham
- 0.1 miles
Forge Close
BCT · Lower Caversham
- 0.1 miles
Star Inn
BCT · Lower Caversham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Reading 004E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,243 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 30
- 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
86 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 14 secondary schools. New Bridge Nursery School is the nearest published school at 47 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5,235 published events cover 12 months, averaging 436.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,591 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.