Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Bishopswood School is the nearest published school at 239 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG4 9SG
Sonning Common · South Oxfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sonning Common
- Local authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame
- Postcode district
- RG4
- Postcode sector
- RG4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG4 9SG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG4
- Postcode sector
- RG4 9
- Latitude
- 51.517197
- Longitude
- -0.981020
- British National Grid easting
- 470,800
- British National Grid northing
- 180,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- South Oxfordshire · E07000179
- Electoral ward
- Sonning Common · E05012854
- Parish or community
- E04012493
- Westminster constituency
- Henley and Thame · E14001280
- Output area
- E00145998
- Lower layer super output area
- South Oxfordshire 020B · E01028663
- Middle layer super output area
- South Oxfordshire 020 · E02005977
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
- 16
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 239 m
Bishopswood School
Academy special sponsor led
- 267 m
Sonning Common Primary School
Community school
- 820 m
Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 202
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 90
- Anti social behaviour 21
- Public order 20
- Shoplifting 14
- Other crime 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG4 9 residents
- 5,980
Age bands in RG4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.8%
1,046 residents
508 residents
1,117 residents
1,744 residents
1,539 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
SONNING COMMON HEALTH CTR
WOOD LANE, SONNING COMMON,READING, READING, RG4 9SW
ODS code K84020
192 m
EMMER GREEN SURGERY
4 ST. BARNABAS ROAD, EMMER GREEN, READING, RG4 8RA
ODS code K81041
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Sonning Common
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Sonning Common
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Sonning Common
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Sonning Common
- 0.1 miles
Health Centre
BCT · Sonning Common
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Oxfordshire 020B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,066 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
202 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 90 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.