Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
Registered sales over the last five years
11,158
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
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Explore house prices and housing, home energy and crime and safety in Reading. This local area guide brings together 657 published figures for this town in England, with the source and date shown for each.
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£151 above Average across published towns and cities in England
9,215.881 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£50,697 above Average across published towns and cities in England
3.6 percentage points above Average across published towns and cities in England
£101 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£302 above Average across published towns and cities in England
2.5 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
10.5 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
£142,032 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£113,922 above Average across published towns and cities in England
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Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
11,158
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
1,605
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Home energy certificates · Lower than most
70 m²
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Home energy certificates · Lower than most
81.0%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Home energy certificates · Lower than most
£68 a year
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
2,592
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
48.0%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
71
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
242
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
66
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
218
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
22
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
210
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
40
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
238
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
30
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
164
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
964
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
People & households · Higher than most
72.4%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
12.5%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
44.9%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
51.2%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
5.6%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
50.3%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
19.1%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
54.3%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
41.1%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
67.7%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
Local energy · Higher than most
18
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Local energy · Higher than most
1
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Local energy · Higher than most
22
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Local energy · Higher than most
7
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Heat Networks Planning Database · Q1 2026
Air, land & environment · Higher than most
10 m
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OS Terrain 50 · 2026-07
Air, land & environment · Lower than most
1
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Public Registers for environmental information · 2026-08-24
Schools & childcare · Higher than most
6
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Compare school performance data · 2024/25
Schools & childcare · Higher than most
14
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Compare school performance data · 2024/25
Schools & childcare · Higher than most
12
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Ofsted childcare providers and inspections · 2026-03-31
Health & care · Lower than most
11.2%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Lower than most
1.1%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Lower than most
1.7%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Lower than most
2.2%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Lower than most
0.3%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Higher than most
8
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
3
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Lower than most
35.6%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
14
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Lower than most
19.2%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
28
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Lower than most
81.0%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Health & care · Lower than most
15.1%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
212
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
STATS19 road safety open data · 2021 to 2025
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
29
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
STATS19 road safety open data · 2021 to 2025
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
40
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
STATS19 road safety open data · 2021 to 2025
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
60
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
STATS19 road safety open data · 2021 to 2025
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
471
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
257
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Lower than most
52.0%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
9
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
18
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
4
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
7
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
7
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
4
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
11
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
7
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
3
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
5
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
17
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
4
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
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70
Whole town
Totals and figures for the town boundary
42
Neighbourhood range
Lowest, median and highest across local areas
448
Around the centre
A representative location in the town
97
Wider council area
Named council areas around the town
The small numbers after figure labels refer to this key. They show how a figure was made, not how accurate it is. Open any figure to see its source, date and important limits.
Published council-wide context for councils linked to Reading, not a finding about the whole place or a property.
These records are published for councils linked to known active postcodes in this place. The councils cover a wider area: a listed designation is not a finding that it intersects this town or any property. The list may not be exhaustive. AQMAs are management designations, not measured pollution concentrations, property exposure or clean-air charging zones. Absence of a designation is not evidence of clean air. Great Britain only; Northern Ireland mapping is not included.
Reading · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
An area covering Reading Town Centre, areas along the major radial road routes into Reading (including J11 of the M4) and along the railway lines where they pass through built-up areas.
Official UK-AIR designation recordWokingham · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
The designated area incorporate only those parts detailed on the attached plans being an area extending along a small part of Reading Road and Station Road in the north-west, along Shute End and into Broad Street to the front of 44-52 Denmark Street in t
Official UK-AIR designation recordRegister snapshot: 2026-10-20. Imported 25 October 2026.
Mapped Nitrate Vulnerable Zone records are temporarily unavailable for Reading. This does not establish whether any designation intersects the settlement outline or indicate water quality.
Original published categories whose polygons intersect the official Reading settlement outline, including boundary contact.
These are original category codes and definitions from the retained Source Protection Zones (Merged) dataset whose polygons intersect this place’s official mapped settlement outline, including boundary-only contact. This is not a whole-town or property designation, a finding about a drinking-water supply, or evidence of contamination, water quality or risk. These definitions do not identify individual supplies. Dataset dates do not establish current legal status. Absence of a listed category does not establish that land or a property is outside a zone. England only; separate Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented. Precautionary groundwater abstraction and land-use designation at a postcode centroid, not an address-level finding or drinking-water quality result. Outside a mapped zone does not establish clean or unprotected groundwater. Welsh zones and the separate Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented.
Zone 2 — outer protection zone, within a 400-day groundwater travel time of the abstraction
Zone 3 — total catchment, the whole area of ground needed to support the abstraction
Dataset reference period: 2026-03-06. Downloaded 19 October 2026. Imported 19 October 2026.
Broadband and mobile connectivity
Ofcom publishes these fixed-broadband, full-fibre take-up and mobile coverage profiles for named local and unitary authorities, rather than for town boundaries. They are shown as wider council-area context for Reading; availability figures are provider predictions, not measurements at every address.
These highlights come from complete all-premises and residential broadband profiles, both published full-fibre take-up measures, the complete 2G, 3G, 4G, voice, 5G and standalone-5G network-count profiles, and the premises and grid-pixel counts used as the mobile basis. View every published broadband, full-fibre and mobile value.
Published source details for this wider council-area context:
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