Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Elstree School is the nearest published school at 790 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG7 5SU
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 5SU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG7
- Postcode sector
- RG7 5
- Latitude
- 51.398258
- Longitude
- -1.179160
- British National Grid easting
- 457,200
- British National Grid northing
- 166,900
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
- E00082129
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 011B · E01016255
- 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
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 790 m
Elstree School
Other independent school
- 988 m
Woolhampton C.E. Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.3 km
Aldermaston C.E. Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 60
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 34
- Other theft 8
- Public order 6
- Drugs 4
- Burglary 2
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
3.1 km
BURDWOOD SURGERY
WHEELERS GREEN WAY, THATCHAM, RG19 4YF
ODS code K81102
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Angel
BCT · Woolhampton
- 0.1 miles
The Angel
BCT · Woolhampton
- 0.2 miles
Midgham Rail Station
RSE · Woolhampton
- 0.2 miles
Midgham Rail Station
RSE · Woolhampton
- 0.2 miles
Midgham Rail Station
RLY · Woolhampton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 011B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,034 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
60 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 34 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.