Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. Oakbank School is the nearest published school at 114 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG7 1ET
Spencers Wood & Swallowfield · Wokingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Reading
- Local authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley
- Postcode district
- RG7
- Postcode sector
- RG7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG7 1ET
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG7
- Postcode sector
- RG7 1
- Latitude
- 51.403696
- Longitude
- -0.964063
- British National Grid easting
- 472,155
- British National Grid northing
- 167,694
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wokingham · E06000041
- Electoral ward
- Spencers Wood & Swallowfield · E05015795
- Parish or community
- E04001235
- Westminster constituency
- Earley and Woodley · E14001210
- Output area
- E00084191
- Lower layer super output area
- Wokingham 017G · E01035265
- Middle layer super output area
- Wokingham 017 · E02003455
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 RG7
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Hyde End Lane, Ryeish Green, Reading, RG7 1ET | 24 October 2014 | £370,000 |
| 17, Hyde End Lane, Ryeish Green, Reading, RG7 1ET | 8 August 2014 | £290,000 |
| 7, Hyde End Lane, Ryeish Green, Reading, RG7 1ET | 27 November 2007 | £345,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 114 m
Oakbank School
Free schools
- 573 m
Alder Grove Church of England Primary School
Free schools
- 638 m
The Vine Christian School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 845
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 353
- Anti social behaviour 112
- Other theft 94
- Criminal damage and arson 74
- Public order 72
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- RG7 1 residents
- 10,584
10 female, 10 male
Age bands in RG7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.1%
2,294 residents
857 residents
3,519 residents
2,474 residents
1,499 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG7 1 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
8
within 5 km
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHINFIELD HOUSE, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code Y02128
1.2 km
SOUTH READING & SHINFIELD GROUP MED PRAC
SHINFIELD MEDICAL PRACT, SCHOOL GREEN, SHINFIELD, READING, RG2 9EH
ODS code K81633
1.2 km
SWALLOWFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE STREET, SWALLOWFIELD, READING, RG7 1QY
ODS code K81003
2.9 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
3.6 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
4.1 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
4.5 km
COLEY PARK SURGERY
80 WENSLEY ROAD, COLEY PARK, READING, RG1 6DN
ODS code K81636
4.9 km
BROOKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
BROOKSIDE SURGERY, BROOKSIDE CLOSE, EARLEY, READING, RG6 7HG
ODS code K81047
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
Ryeish Green School
BCT · Ryeish Green
- 0.4 miles
Three Mile Cross Post Office
BCT · Three Mile Cross
- 0.4 miles
Sevenoaks Drive
BCT · Spencers Wood
- 0.4 miles
Bays Crescent
BCT · Spencers Wood
- 0.4 miles
Bays Crescent
BCT · Spencers Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wokingham 017G, 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
31,778 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 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
Recorded crime
845 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 353 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.