Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Elstree School is the nearest published school at 978 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG7 5RJ
Bucklebury · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bucklebury
- 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 5RJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG7
- Postcode sector
- RG7 5
- Latitude
- 51.395480
- Longitude
- -1.167711
- British National Grid easting
- 458,000
- British National Grid northing
- 166,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Bucklebury · E05012135
- Parish or community
- E04001205
- Westminster constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire · E14001439
- Output area
- E00082130
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 011A · E01016254
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 011 · E02003377
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
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 978 m
Elstree School
Other independent school
- 1.2 km
Woolhampton C.E. Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.5 km
Aldermaston C.E. Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 69
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 37
- Other theft 9
- Public order 7
- Drugs 4
- Burglary 3
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
CHAPEL ROW SURGERY
THE AVENUE, BUCKLEBURY, READING, RG7 6NS
ODS code K81103
3.4 km
TADLEY MEDICAL P'SHIP
HOLMWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, FRANKLIN AVENUE, TADLEY, RG26 4ER
ODS code J82094
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hillfoot Cottages
BCT · Woolhampton
- 0.1 miles
Hillfoot Cottages
BCT · Woolhampton
- 0.3 miles
The Sun Garage
BCT · Woolhampton
- 0.4 miles
The Sun Garage
BCT · Woolhampton
- 0.4 miles
The Angel
BCT · Woolhampton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 011A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,282 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
69 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 37 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.