Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. Shiplake College is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG9 3PF
Sonning Common · South Oxfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sonning Common
- Local authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame
- Postcode district
- RG9
- Postcode sector
- RG9 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG9 3PF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG9
- Postcode sector
- RG9 3
- Latitude
- 51.511851
- Longitude
- -0.887473
- British National Grid easting
- 477,300
- British National Grid northing
- 179,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- South Oxfordshire · E07000179
- Electoral ward
- Sonning Common · E05012854
- Parish or community
- E04012492
- Westminster constituency
- Henley and Thame · E14001280
- Output area
- E00145990
- Lower layer super output area
- South Oxfordshire 019C · E01028661
- Middle layer super output area
- South Oxfordshire 019 · E02005976
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 RG9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.6 km
Shiplake College
Other independent school
- 1.8 km
Shiplake Church of England School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.2 km
Robert Piggott CofE Junior School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 20
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Burglary 4
- Other theft 3
- Public order 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG9 3 residents
- 2,169
Age bands in RG9 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 13%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.3%
342 residents
294 residents
284 residents
667 residents
597 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
WARGRAVE PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, VICTORIA ROAD, WARGRAVE, READING, RG10 8BP
ODS code K81055
2.1 km
THE BELL SURGERY
YORK ROAD, HENLEY ON THAMES, RG9 2DR
ODS code K84035
3.3 km
THE HART SURGERY
YORK ROAD, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, RG9 2DR
ODS code K84001
3.3 km
TWYFORD SURGERY
6 LODDON HALL ROAD, TWYFORD, READING, RG10 9JA
ODS code K81070
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Station Road
BCT · Lower Shiplake
- 0.2 miles
Shiplake Rail Station
RSE · Shiplake
- 0.2 miles
Shiplake Rail Station
RLY · Shiplake
- 0.2 miles
Station Road
BCT · Lower Shiplake
- 0.3 miles
Bolney Lane
BCT · Lower Shiplake
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Oxfordshire 019C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,716 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
- 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
Recorded crime
20 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.