Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Oakbank School is the nearest published school at 294 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG7 1GW
Spencers Wood & Swallowfield · Wokingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley
- Postcode district
- RG7
- Postcode sector
- RG7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG7 1GW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG7
- Postcode sector
- RG7 1
- Latitude
- 51.401034
- Longitude
- -0.962039
- British National Grid easting
- 472,300
- British National Grid northing
- 167,400
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 294 m
Oakbank School
Free schools
- 573 m
Alder Grove Church of England Primary School
Free schools
- 904 m
The Vine Christian School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 707
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 305
- Anti social behaviour 102
- Other theft 71
- Public order 62
- Criminal damage and arson 55
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG7 1 residents
- 10,584
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
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
7
within 5 km straight-line
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
2.5 km
LONG BARN LANE SURGERY
22 LONG BARN LANE, WHITLEY, READING, RG2 7SZ
ODS code K81048
3.9 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 9-11 NORTHCOURT AVENUE, READING, RG2 7HE
ODS code K81605
4.4 km
MILMAN & KENNET SURGERY
MILMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1ST FLOOR, 50 MILMAN ROAD, READING, RG2 0AR
ODS code K81040
4.8 km
BROOKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
BROOKSIDE SURGERY, BROOKSIDE CLOSE, EARLEY, READING, RG6 7HG
ODS code K81047
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Ryeish Green School
BCT · Ryeish Green
- 0.2 miles
Bays Crescent
BCT · Spencers Wood
- 0.2 miles
Bays Crescent
BCT · Spencers Wood
- 0.2 miles
Fullbrook Avenue
BCT · Spencers Wood
- 0.2 miles
Fullbrook Avenue
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
707 published events cover 12 months, averaging 58.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 305 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.