# RG21

Postcode district covering Basingstoke and Kings Furlong, in Basingstoke and Deane.

RG21 is a postcode district covering Basingstoke and Kings Furlong, in Basingstoke and Deane. Median sale price £299,950 in 2025.

Postcode district. Code RG21. In: [Postcodes](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode) › [RG](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg)

Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an RG21 postcode. [How census figures are added up](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/population)

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £299,950** (2025). The median price paid for a home in RG21 was £299,950 in 2025. Joint 1,096th most expensive of 2,235. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 29,845** (2021). RG21 had 29,845 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 936th most populated of 2,756. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in RG21 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 87.0%** (January 2026). In RG21, 87.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=RG21) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 100% of people in RG21 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=RG21) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 431 homes were sold in RG21 in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=RG21) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for RG21.
- [Population by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=RG21) (Census 2021, England and Wales): RG21 had 29,845 usual residents at the census.

## How RG21 compares

Each postcode district against every other postcode district the measure covers.

| Measure | RG21 | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £299,950 | cheapest | 30 postcode districts, RG · 2025 |
| Population | 29,845 | 13th most populated | 30 postcode districts, RG · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 30 postcode districts, RG · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 87.0% | 13th lowest | 30 postcode districts, RG · Jan 2026 |

## Is RG21 safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in RG21 at a rate of 130.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 71.0 per 1,000 people across the RG postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 354 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in RG21.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,634), other crime (757) and anti-social behaviour (558).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in RG21 was 136.7 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.

## Deprivation in RG21, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so RG21 has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in RG21

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 008D](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022523) | 2,569 | 107.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.5% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 009A](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022524) | 1,912 | 84.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.9% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 009B](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022525) | 1,654 | 82.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 009D](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022527) | 1,611 | 112.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 009E](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01034715) | 1,680 | 102.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.9% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 009F](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01034716) | 1,302 | 119.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.4% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 011B](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022502) | 1,587 | 75.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 87.9% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 011C](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022506) | 1,317 | 50.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.9% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 011D](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022507) | 1,542 | 64.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.8% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 011E](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01032842) | 1,382 | 244.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.3% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 011F](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01032847) | 2,059 | 415.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 55.6% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 012A](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022481) | 1,981 | 70.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.0% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 012B](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022482) | 1,649 | 190.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.5% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 012D](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022503) | 1,738 | 344.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 75.8% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 012E](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01032845) | 1,777 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.6% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 012F](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01032846) | 1,689 | 63.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 016D](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022504) | 1,665 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 73.5% |
| [Basingstoke and Deane 016E](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/neighbourhood/e01022505) | 1,752 | 160.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.6% |

## Your MP

- [Basingstoke](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/basingstoke): Luke Murphy (Labour), MP since July 2024. 100% of the people here.
- [North West Hampshire](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/north-west-hampshire): Kit Malthouse (Conservative), MP since July 2024. 0.3% of the people here.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Middle areas in RG21

[Basingstoke Central, Black Dam & Eastrop](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/basingstoke-central-black-dam-and-eastrop), [Houndmills & Oakridge](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/houndmills-and-oakridge), [Kings Furlong](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane/kings-furlong)

## Postcode sectors in RG21

[RG21 3 (173 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21-3), [RG21 4 (115 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21-4), [RG21 5 (152 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21-5), [RG21 6 (55 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21-6), [RG21 7 (163 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21-7), [RG21 8 (100 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21-8)

## Council

[Basingstoke and Deane](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane)

## Towns in RG21

[Basingstoke](https://openindex.co.uk/town/basingstoke)

## Postcode districts next to RG21

[RG22](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg22), [RG23](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg23), [RG24](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg24), [RG25](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg25)

## Nearest rail stations

[Basingstoke (500 m from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=-1.0873,51.2684)

## More in the RG postcode area

[All RG postcode districts](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg), [Every UK postcode area](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode)

## RG21 in brief

RG21 is a postcode district covering Basingstoke and Kings Furlong, in Basingstoke and Deane.
About 31,444 people lived in RG21 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £299,950 in 2025 across 431 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 130.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in RG21 was £299,950 in 2025.
RG21 had 29,845 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in RG21 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In RG21, 87.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Postcode district
- Code: RG21
- Postcode area: [RG](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg)
- Constituency: [Basingstoke †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/basingstoke)
- Council: [Basingstoke and Deane †](https://openindex.co.uk/basingstoke-and-deane)
- Area: 7.96 km²
- People, mid-2024: 31,444*
- Neighbourhoods: 18
- Output areas: 96

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency, council, region and nation this postcode district mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[RG24](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg24), [RG22](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg22), [RG25](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg25), [RG23](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg23)

## Latest updates for RG21

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/RG21

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg21