Property market
The five-year median is £617,750 from 6 recorded sales in RG8 8DJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Berkshire is £402,790 in June 2026, up 0.2% year on year.
RG8 8DJ
Tilehurst & Purley · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Reading
- Ward
- Tilehurst & Purley
- Local authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire
- Postcode district
- RG8
- Postcode sector
- RG8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG8 8DJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG8
- Postcode sector
- RG8 8
- Latitude
- 51.482320
- Longitude
- -1.059996
- British National Grid easting
- 465,370
- British National Grid northing
- 176,348
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Tilehurst & Purley · E05012153
- Parish or community
- E04001186
- Westminster constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire · E14001439
- Output area
- E00082415
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 004B · E01016316
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 004 · E02003370
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 RG8
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 19, Leopard Lane, Purley On Thames, Reading, RG8 8DJ | 16 January 2026 | £710,500 |
| 6, Leopard Lane, Purley On Thames, Reading, RG8 8DJ | 19 December 2025 | £755,000 |
| 27, Leopard Lane, Purley On Thames, Reading, RG8 8DJ | 14 October 2024 | £775,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 3
- 718 m
Long Lane Primary School
Community school
- 753 m
Purley CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.2 km
Denefield School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 291
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 110
- Anti social behaviour 55
- Criminal damage and arson 35
- Other theft 26
- Public order 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG8 8 residents
- 5,765
Age bands in RG8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
926 residents
666 residents
1,036 residents
1,780 residents
1,178 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.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
5
within 5 km
THE BOAT HOUSE SURGERY
WHITCHURCH ROAD, PANGBOURNE, READING, RG8 7DP
ODS code K81012
1.8 km
TILEHURST VILLAGE SURGERY
92 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PP
ODS code K81644
2.6 km
WESTWOOD ROAD SURGERY
66 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PR
ODS code K81056
2.7 km
THE POTTERIES
TYLERS PLACE, TILEHURST, READING, RG30 6BW
ODS code K81004
3.4 km
GROVELANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
701 OXFORD ROAD, READING, RG30 1HG
ODS code K81078
4.3 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
- 0.1 miles
Beech Road
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.1 miles
Beech Road
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.2 miles
Westbury Lane
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.2 miles
Purley Social Club
BCS · Purley on Thames
- 0.3 miles
Sherwood Rise
BCT · Purley on Thames
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 004B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,780 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 3 secondary schools. Long Lane Primary School is the nearest published school at 718 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
291 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 110 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.