Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 6 secondary schools. Haywards Farm School is the nearest published school at 683 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG7 5QJ
Theale · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Theale
- Local authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire
- Postcode district
- RG7
- Postcode sector
- RG7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG7 5QJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG7
- Postcode sector
- RG7 5
- Latitude
- 51.437946
- Longitude
- -1.074862
- British National Grid easting
- 464,400
- British National Grid northing
- 171,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Theale · E05012152
- Parish or community
- E04001195
- Westminster constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire · E14001439
- Output area
- E00082558
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 009C · E01016344
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 009 · E02003375
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
- 43
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 6
- 683 m
Haywards Farm School
Other independent special school
- 690 m
Theale C.E. Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 805 m
Theale Green School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 607
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 186
- Violence and sexual offences 166
- Public order 61
- Anti social behaviour 49
- Criminal damage and arson 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG7 5 residents
- 5,771
Age bands in RG7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
1,011 residents
574 residents
1,456 residents
1,682 residents
1,141 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
THEALE MEDICAL CENTRE
ENGLEFIELD ROAD, THEALE, READING, RG7 5AS
ODS code K81077
399 m
WESTWOOD ROAD SURGERY
66 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PR
ODS code K81056
3.4 km
TILEHURST VILLAGE SURGERY
92 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PP
ODS code K81644
3.4 km
THE POTTERIES
TYLERS PLACE, TILEHURST, READING, RG30 6BW
ODS code K81004
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Brewery Court
BCT · Theale
- 0.1 miles
Brewery Court
BCT · Theale
- 0.1 miles
Theale flexi area
BCT · Theale
- 0.1 miles
The Crown
BCT · Theale
- 0.1 miles
The Crown
BCT · Theale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 009C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,940 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
607 published events cover 12 months, averaging 50.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 186 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.