Schools
75 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 10 secondary schools. Maiden Erlegh School is the nearest published school at 411 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG6 7DU
Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates · Wokingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Reading
- Local authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley
- Postcode district
- RG6
- Postcode sector
- RG6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG6 7DU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG6
- Postcode sector
- RG6 7
- Latitude
- 51.440785
- Longitude
- -0.921890
- British National Grid easting
- 475,028
- British National Grid northing
- 171,861
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wokingham · E06000041
- Electoral ward
- Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates · E05015791
- Parish or community
- E04001230
- Westminster constituency
- Earley and Woodley · E14001210
- Output area
- E00084111
- Lower layer super output area
- Wokingham 006E · E01016668
- Middle layer super output area
- Wokingham 006 · E02003444
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
Property
24 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 215, Wokingham Road, Earley, Reading, RG6 7DU | 16 September 2020 | £497,500 |
| 225, Wokingham Road, Earley, Reading, RG6 7DU | 10 September 2019 | £730,000 |
| 301, Wokingham Road, Earley, Reading, RG6 7DU | 28 February 2018 | £12,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 75
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 10
- 411 m
Maiden Erlegh School
Academy converter
- 444 m
Aldryngton Primary School
Community school
- 583 m
Earley St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,753
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 719
- Shoplifting 221
- Anti social behaviour 145
- Public order 133
- Other theft 118
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 93
- Postcode households
- 33
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- RG6 7 residents
- 8,160
42 female, 51 male
Age bands in RG6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.6%
1,596 residents
966 residents
1,876 residents
2,172 residents
1,318 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG6 7 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+
- 97%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 97%
- Gigabit-capable
- 97%
- 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
17
within 5 km
PARKSIDE PRACTICE
224 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JS
ODS code K81045
986 m
BROOKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
BROOKSIDE SURGERY, BROOKSIDE CLOSE, EARLEY, READING, RG6 7HG
ODS code K81047
1.1 km
WOODLEY PRACTICE
WOODLEY CENTRE SURGERY, 6 HEADLEY ROAD, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4JA
ODS code K81051
1.9 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
2.2 km
PEMBROKE SURGERY
31 ALEXANDRA ROAD, READING, RG1 5PG
ODS code K81100
2.3 km
LODDON VALE PRACTICE
HURRICANE WAY, WOODLEY, READING, RG5 4UX
ODS code K81069
2.8 km
MELROSE SURGERY
73 LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 5BS
ODS code K81651
2.9 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
3.2 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
3.2 km
LONDON STREET SURGERY
72 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4SJ
ODS code K81007
3.4 km
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code K81081
4.1 km
BROAD STREET HEALTH CENTRE
1ST FLOOR, BROAD ST HC, 103-105 BROAD STREET MALL, READING, RG1 7QA
ODS code Y02476
4.1 km
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHINFIELD HOUSE, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code Y02128
4.3 km
SOUTH READING & SHINFIELD GROUP MED PRAC
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACT, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code K81633
4.3 km
CHATHAM STREET SURGERY
121 CHATHAM STREET, READING, RG1 7JE
ODS code K81026
4.5 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
4.5 km
BALMORE PARK SURGERY
59A HEMDEAN ROAD, CAVERSHAM, READING, RG4 7SS
ODS code K81014
4.9 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
- 0.0 miles
Stanton Close
BCT · Earley
- 0.0 miles
Stanton Close
BCT · Earley
- 0.1 miles
Earley Station
BCT · Earley
- 0.2 miles
Earley Station
BCT · Earley
- 0.2 miles
Mays Lane
BCT · Earley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wokingham 006E, 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
29,810 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
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
- 1
- 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
1,753 published events cover 12 months, averaging 146.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 719 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.