Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. Long Lane Primary School is the nearest published school at 88 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG8 8RW
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 8RW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG8
- Postcode sector
- RG8 8
- Latitude
- 51.478409
- Longitude
- -1.053351
- British National Grid easting
- 465,837
- British National Grid northing
- 175,919
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
- E00172660
- 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
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 33, Sherwood Rise, Purley On Thames, Reading, RG8 8RW | 29 October 2020 | £618,000 |
| 36, Sherwood Rise, Purley On Thames, Reading, RG8 8RW | 7 July 2020 | £640,000 |
| 35, Sherwood Rise, Purley On Thames, Reading, RG8 8RW | 28 September 2006 | £375,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 88 m
Long Lane Primary School
Community school
- 505 m
Purley CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 733 m
Brookfields School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 392
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 131
- Anti social behaviour 64
- Shoplifting 54
- Criminal damage and arson 36
- Other theft 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- RG8 8 residents
- 5,765
12 female, 12 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 0.4% 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
7
within 5 km
TILEHURST VILLAGE SURGERY
92 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PP
ODS code K81644
2.1 km
WESTWOOD ROAD SURGERY
66 WESTWOOD ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5PR
ODS code K81056
2.2 km
THE BOAT HOUSE SURGERY
WHITCHURCH ROAD, PANGBOURNE, READING, RG8 7DP
ODS code K81012
2.4 km
THE POTTERIES
TYLERS PLACE, TILEHURST, READING, RG30 6BW
ODS code K81004
2.8 km
GROVELANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
701 OXFORD ROAD, READING, RG30 1HG
ODS code K81078
3.6 km
THEALE MEDICAL CENTRE
ENGLEFIELD ROAD, THEALE, READING, RG7 5AS
ODS code K81077
4.9 km
WESTERN ELMS & CIRCUIT LANE SURGERIES
WESTERN ELMS LODGE, WESTERN ELMS AVENUE, READING, RG30 1AT
ODS code K81062
4.9 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
Highfield Road
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.1 miles
Highfield Road
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.1 miles
Cecil Aldin Drive
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.1 miles
Cecil Aldin Drive
BCT · Purley on Thames
- 0.2 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.
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
Recorded crime
392 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 131 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.