Schools
81 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 12 secondary schools. River Academy is the nearest published school at 725 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG4 7DW
Caversham Heights · Reading · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Caversham Heights
- Local authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central
- Postcode district
- RG4
- Postcode sector
- RG4 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG4 7DW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG4
- Postcode sector
- RG4 7
- Latitude
- 51.471384
- Longitude
- -0.986360
- British National Grid easting
- 470,500
- British National Grid northing
- 175,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Reading · E06000038
- Electoral ward
- Caversham Heights · E05013867
- Parish or community
- E43000031
- Westminster constituency
- Reading Central · E14001438
- Output area
- E00082968
- Lower layer super output area
- Reading 002D · E01016426
- Middle layer super output area
- Reading 002 · E02003390
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 81
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 12
- 725 m
River Academy
Free schools
- 826 m
Caversham Primary School
Community school
- 930 m
The Heights Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,935
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 627
- Shoplifting 260
- Other theft 199
- Anti social behaviour 160
- Public order 136
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG4 7 residents
- 9,809
Age bands in RG4 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.6%
1,810 residents
836 residents
1,988 residents
2,878 residents
1,948 residents
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.
GP practices
19
within 5 km straight-line
BALMORE PARK SURGERY
59A HEMDEAN ROAD, CAVERSHAM, READING, RG4 7SS
ODS code K81014
904 m
EMMER GREEN SURGERY
4 ST. BARNABAS ROAD, EMMER GREEN, READING, RG4 8RA
ODS code K81041
1.7 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
1.8 km
CHATHAM STREET SURGERY
121 CHATHAM STREET, READING, RG1 7JE
ODS code K81026
1.8 km
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code K81081
2.0 km
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
2.0 km
GROVELANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
701 OXFORD ROAD, READING, RG30 1HG
ODS code K81078
2.0 km
LONDON STREET SURGERY
72 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4SJ
ODS code K81007
2.6 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
2.9 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
2.9 km
THE POTTERIES
TYLERS PLACE, TILEHURST, READING, RG30 6BW
ODS code K81004
3.0 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
3.3 km
PEMBROKE SURGERY
31 ALEXANDRA ROAD, READING, RG1 5PG
ODS code K81100
3.5 km
TILEHURST VILLAGE SURGERY
92 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PP
ODS code K81644
4.0 km
WESTWOOD ROAD SURGERY
66 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PR
ODS code K81056
4.1 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
4.1 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
4.1 km
PARKSIDE PRACTICE
224 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JS
ODS code K81045
4.6 km
SONNING COMMON HEALTH CTR
WOOD LANE, SONNING COMMON,READING, READING, RG4 9SW
ODS code K84020
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Highmoor Road Church
BCT · Caversham Heights
- 0.1 miles
Highmoor Road Church
BCT · Caversham Heights
- 0.1 miles
Blossom Road
BCT · Caversham Heights
- 0.1 miles
Blossom Road
BCT · Caversham Heights
- 0.2 miles
Darell Road
BCT · Caversham Heights
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Reading 002D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,446 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,935 published events cover 12 months, averaging 161.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 627 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.