Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Pangbourne College is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG8 8JX
Basildon · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Basildon
- 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 8JX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG8
- Postcode sector
- RG8 8
- Latitude
- 51.479676
- Longitude
- -1.122748
- British National Grid easting
- 461,016
- British National Grid northing
- 176,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Basildon · E05012133
- Parish or community
- E04001149
- Westminster constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire · E14001439
- Output area
- E00082134
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 003A · E01016256
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 003 · E02003369
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.0 km
Pangbourne College
Other independent school
- 1.7 km
Basildon C.E. Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
St Andrew's School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 26
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 12
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Burglary 2
- Other crime 2
- Other theft 2
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
THE BOAT HOUSE SURGERY
WHITCHURCH ROAD, PANGBOURNE, READING, RG8 7DP
ODS code K81012
2.7 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
- 0.0 miles
Bowden Green
BCT · Upper Basildon
- 0.0 miles
Bowden Green
BCT · Upper Basildon
- 0.1 miles
Wakemans
BCT · Upper Basildon
- 0.2 miles
Wakemans
BCT · Upper Basildon
- 0.4 miles
Knappswood Close
BCT · Upper Basildon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 003A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,482 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
26 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 12 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.