Schools
70 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 11 secondary schools. Loddon Primary School is the nearest published school at 687 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG5 3SH
South Lake · Wokingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 3SH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG5
- Postcode sector
- RG5 3
- Latitude
- 51.440120
- Longitude
- -0.909360
- British National Grid easting
- 475,900
- British National Grid northing
- 171,800
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
- E00084216
- Lower layer super output area
- Wokingham 007C · E01016686
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 70
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 11
- 687 m
Loddon Primary School
Community school
- 714 m
South Lake Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Hawkedon Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,450
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 578
- Shoplifting 203
- Anti social behaviour 149
- Public order 125
- Criminal damage and arson 100
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG5 3 residents
- 11,557
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
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
15
within 5 km straight-line
BROOKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
BROOKSIDE SURGERY, BROOKSIDE CLOSE, EARLEY, READING, RG6 7HG
ODS code K81047
817 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
1.8 km
LODDON VALE PRACTICE
HURRICANE WAY, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4UX
ODS code K81069
2.2 km
PEMBROKE SURGERY
31 ALEXANDRA ROAD, READING, RG1 5PG
ODS code K81100
3.1 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
3.1 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
3.7 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
4.0 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
4.1 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
4.7 km
SOUTH READING & SHINFIELD GROUP MED PRAC
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACT, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code K81633
4.7 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
4.9 km
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Meadow Road
BCT · Earley
- 0.1 miles
Meadow Road
BCT · Earley
- 0.2 miles
Skelmerdale Way Footpath
BCT · Earley
- 0.2 miles
Skelmerdale Way Footpath
BCT · Earley
- 0.2 miles
Henley Wood Road
BCT · Earley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wokingham 007C, 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
30,512 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,450 published events cover 12 months, averaging 120.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 578 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.