Property market
The five-year median is £10,000 from 1 recorded sale in RG8 8QS. 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 8QS
Basildon · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Reading
- 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 8QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG8
- Postcode sector
- RG8 8
- Latitude
- 51.468375
- Longitude
- -1.173727
- British National Grid easting
- 457,490
- British National Grid northing
- 174,702
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Basildon · E05012133
- Parish or community
- E04001148
- Westminster constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire · E14001439
- Output area
- E00082262
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 007E · E01016285
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 007 · E02003373
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ashampstead Lodge, Ashampstead Common, Reading, RG8 8QS | 10 November 2023 | £10,000 |
| Ashampstead Lodge, Ashampstead Common, Reading, RG8 8QS | 29 August 2014 | £850,000 |
| Burnt Hill Cottage, Ashampstead Common, Reading, RG8 8QS | 5 July 2001 | £600,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.9 km
Yattendon C.E. Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.7 km
Basildon C.E. Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
St Andrew's School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 3
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Drugs 1
- Burglary 1
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- RG8 8 residents
- 5,765
8 female, 6 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG8 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
1
within 5 km
CHAPEL ROW SURGERY
THE AVENUE, BUCKLEBURY, READING, RG7 6NS
ODS code K81103
4.7 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
- 0.4 miles
Church
BCT · Burnt Hill
- 1.3 miles
Kiln Ride
BCT · Upper Basildon
- 1.3 miles
Kiln Ride
BCT · Upper Basildon
- 1.4 miles
Yattendon flexi area
BCT · Yattendon
- 1.5 miles
Captains Gorse
BCT · Upper Basildon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 007E, 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
20,202 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Yattendon C.E. Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.