Schools
79 open schools are in scope, including 47 primary and 11 secondary schools. Addington School is the nearest published school at 401 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG6 1GZ
South Lake · Wokingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- South Lake
- Local authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley
- Postcode district
- RG6
- Postcode sector
- RG6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG6 1GZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 2012
- Terminated
- 1 June 2016
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG6
- Postcode sector
- RG6 1
- Latitude
- 51.450781
- Longitude
- -0.922590
- British National Grid easting
- 474,963
- British National Grid northing
- 172,972
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
- E00188523
- Lower layer super output area
- Wokingham 007E · E01016688
- 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 RG6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 79
- Primary
- 47
- Secondary
- 11
- 401 m
Addington School
Academy special converter
- 413 m
Highwood Primary School
Academy converter
- 515 m
The Bulmershe School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,827
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 739
- Shoplifting 237
- Anti social behaviour 159
- Other theft 153
- Public order 147
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG6 1 residents
- 9,357
Age bands in RG6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 18.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.4%
1,646 residents
1,637 residents
2,609 residents
1,925 residents
1,111 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
16
within 5 km straight-line
PARKSIDE PRACTICE
224 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JS
ODS code K81045
995 m
WOODLEY PRACTICE
WOODLEY CENTRE SURGERY, 6 HEADLEY ROAD, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4JA
ODS code K81051
1.3 km
PEMBROKE SURGERY
31 ALEXANDRA ROAD, READING, RG1 5PG
ODS code K81100
2.0 km
BROOKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
BROOKSIDE SURGERY, BROOKSIDE CLOSE, EARLEY, READING, RG6 7HG
ODS code K81047
2.1 km
LODDON VALE PRACTICE
HURRICANE WAY, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4UX
ODS code K81069
2.4 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
2.5 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
2.6 km
LONDON STREET SURGERY
72 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4SJ
ODS code K81007
3.1 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
3.2 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
3.5 km
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code K81081
3.7 km
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
3.7 km
CHATHAM STREET SURGERY
121 CHATHAM STREET, READING, RG1 7JE
ODS code K81026
4.2 km
BALMORE PARK SURGERY
59A HEMDEAN ROAD, CAVERSHAM, READING, RG4 7SS
ODS code K81014
4.2 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
4.5 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bulmershe Court
BCT · Bulmershe
- 0.1 miles
Bulmershe Court
BCT · Bulmershe
- 0.2 miles
Palmerstone Road
BCT · Earley
- 0.2 miles
Palmerstone Road
BCT · Earley
- 0.2 miles
Culver Lane
BCT · North Earley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wokingham 007E, 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
32,245 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,827 published events cover 12 months, averaging 152.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 739 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.