Property market
The five-year median is £450,000 from 1 recorded sale in RG5 3RL. 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 3RL
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 3RL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG5
- Postcode sector
- RG5 3
- Latitude
- 51.440406
- Longitude
- -0.908202
- British National Grid easting
- 475,980
- British National Grid northing
- 171,833
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
- E00084087
- Lower layer super output area
- Wokingham 007B · E01016663
- 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
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Kipling Close, Woodley, Reading, RG5 3RL | 15 August 2025 | £450,000 |
| 4, Kipling Close, Woodley, Reading, RG5 3RL | 23 February 2021 | £297,500 |
| 4, Kipling Close, Woodley, Reading, RG5 3RL | 29 September 2011 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 71
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 11
- 669 m
South Lake Primary School
Academy converter
- 738 m
Loddon Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Hawkedon Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,416
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 567
- Shoplifting 191
- Anti social behaviour 144
- Public order 127
- Criminal damage and arson 100
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- RG5 3 residents
- 11,557
10 female, 10 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 0.2% 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
15
within 5 km
BROOKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
BROOKSIDE SURGERY, BROOKSIDE CLOSE, EARLEY, READING, RG6 7HG
ODS code K81047
865 m
WOODLEY PRACTICE
WOODLEY CENTRE SURGERY, 6 HEADLEY ROAD, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4JA
ODS code K81051
1.5 km
PARKSIDE PRACTICE
224 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JS
ODS code K81045
1.9 km
LODDON VALE PRACTICE
HURRICANE WAY, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4UX
ODS code K81069
2.1 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
3.2 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
3.8 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
4.1 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
4.2 km
LONDON STREET SURGERY
72 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4SJ
ODS code K81007
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
WOOSEHILL PRACTICE
WOOSEHILL MEDICAL CENTRE, FERNLEA DRIVE, WOOSEHILL, WOKINGHAM, RG41 3DR
ODS code K81092
4.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Meadow Road
BCT · Earley
- 0.2 miles
Meadow Road
BCT · Earley
- 0.2 miles
Skelmerdale Way Footpath
BCT · Earley
- 0.2 miles
Skelmerdale Way Footpath
BCT · Earley
- 0.3 miles
Coppice Road Parade
BCT · Woodley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wokingham 007B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,869 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
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
Schools
71 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 11 secondary schools. South Lake Primary School is the nearest published school at 669 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,416 published events cover 12 months, averaging 118 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 567 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.