Property market
The five-year median is £447,500 from 4 recorded sales in RG5 3LS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wokingham is £498,941 in June 2026, down 3.1% year on year.
RG5 3LS
South Lake · Wokingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Reading
- Ward
- South Lake
- Local authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley
- Postcode district
- RG5
- Postcode sector
- RG5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG5 3LS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG5
- Postcode sector
- RG5 3
- Latitude
- 51.446641
- Longitude
- -0.905650
- British National Grid easting
- 476,147
- British National Grid northing
- 172,529
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wokingham · E06000041
- Electoral ward
- South Lake · E05015794
- Parish or community
- E04001243
- Westminster constituency
- Earley and Woodley · E14001210
- Output area
- E00084217
- Lower layer super output area
- Wokingham 007F · E01016689
- Middle layer super output area
- Wokingham 007 · E02003445
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 RG5
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 33, Nightingale Road, Woodley, Reading, RG5 3LS | 30 May 2024 | £455,000 |
| 27, Nightingale Road, Woodley, Reading, RG5 3LS | 24 June 2023 | £390,000 |
| 31, Nightingale Road, Woodley, Reading, RG5 3LS | 13 March 2023 | £440,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 70
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 11
- 107 m
South Lake Primary School
Academy converter
- 614 m
Beechwood Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 614 m
The Ambleside Centre
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,251
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 541
- Anti social behaviour 124
- Public order 112
- Shoplifting 100
- Other theft 99
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 23
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- RG5 3 residents
- 11,557
25 female, 23 male
Age bands in RG5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 21%
2,177 residents
1,045 residents
2,821 residents
3,042 residents
2,419 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG5 3 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
13
within 5 km
WOODLEY PRACTICE
WOODLEY CENTRE SURGERY, 6 HEADLEY ROAD, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4JA
ODS code K81051
770 m
LODDON VALE PRACTICE
HURRICANE WAY, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4UX
ODS code K81069
1.5 km
BROOKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
BROOKSIDE SURGERY, BROOKSIDE CLOSE, EARLEY, READING, RG6 7HG
ODS code K81047
1.6 km
PARKSIDE PRACTICE
224 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JS
ODS code K81045
2.0 km
PEMBROKE SURGERY
31 ALEXANDRA ROAD, READING, RG1 5PG
ODS code K81100
3.2 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
3.4 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
3.8 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
4.3 km
LONDON STREET SURGERY
72 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4SJ
ODS code K81007
4.4 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
4.4 km
TWYFORD SURGERY
6 LODDON HALL ROAD, TWYFORD, READING, RG10 9JA
ODS code K81070
4.9 km
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code K81081
5.0 km
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
5.0 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
- 0.0 miles
Livingstone Gardens
BCT · Woodley
- 0.1 miles
Livingstone Gardens
BCT · Woodley
- 0.1 miles
Mulberry Close
BCT · Woodley
- 0.1 miles
Mulberry Close
BCT · Woodley
- 0.1 miles
Drovers Way Top
BCT · Woodley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wokingham 007F, 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
33,089 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 2
- 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
70 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 11 secondary schools. South Lake Primary School is the nearest published school at 107 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,251 published events cover 12 months, averaging 104.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 541 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.