Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Bohunt School Wokingham is the nearest published school at 549 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG40 4QY
Barkham & Arborfield · Wokingham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG40 4QY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG40
- Postcode sector
- RG40 4
- Latitude
- 51.375171
- Longitude
- -0.896852
- British National Grid easting
- 476,878
- British National Grid northing
- 164,590
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wokingham · E06000041
- Electoral ward
- Barkham & Arborfield · E05015783
- Parish or community
- E04001231
- Westminster constituency
- Wokingham · E14001593
- Output area
- E00188503
- Lower layer super output area
- Wokingham 018G · E01035269
- Middle layer super output area
- Wokingham 018 · E02003456
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 RG40
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hogwood Farm, Hogwood House, Sheerlands Road, Finchampstead, Wokingham, RG40 4QY | 15 February 2005 | £246,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 549 m
Bohunt School Wokingham
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Farley Hill Primary School
Community school
- 2.5 km
Gorse Ride Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 436
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 163
- Anti social behaviour 75
- Shoplifting 50
- Other theft 30
- Criminal damage and arson 29
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- RG40 4 residents
- 7,437
1 female, 1 male
Age bands in RG40 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
1,355 residents
747 residents
1,478 residents
2,243 residents
1,415 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG40 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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km
FINCHAMPSTEAD PRACTICE
THE FINCHAMPSTEAD SURGERY, 474-478 FINCHAMPSTEAD ROAD, WOKINGHAM, RG40 3RG
ODS code K81025
2.7 km
SWALLOWFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE STREET, SWALLOWFIELD, READING, RG7 1QY
ODS code K81003
4.3 km
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHINFIELD HOUSE, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code Y02128
4.8 km
SOUTH READING & SHINFIELD GROUP MED PRAC
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACT, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code K81633
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
Marino Way
BCT · Finchampstead
- 0.1 miles
Harvest Path
BCT · Arborfield Garrison
- 0.1 miles
Harvest Path
BCT · Arborfield Garrison
- 0.2 miles
Marino Way
BCT · Finchampstead
- 0.2 miles
Arborfield Green Centre
BCT · Arborfield Garrison
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wokingham 018G, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,657 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
Recorded crime
436 published events cover 12 months, averaging 36.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 163 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.