# RG5 3BZ: area report for a postcode in Wokingham

RG5 3BZ is a postcode in Wokingham.

A postcode has no figures of its own: each layer is published for whole councils, neighbourhoods or exact points. The figures below are for the whole of Wokingham. Open the map at RG5 3BZ for neighbourhoods and points.

In: [Wokingham](https://openindex.co.uk/wokingham) › [RG5](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg5) › [RG5 3](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rg5-3)

## Around this postcode

- **31 crimes within 500 m**: August, down 9% on July. Wokingham 005B: 105 a year per 1,000 people. (Map point) https://openindex.co.uk/map/street-crime?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **Earley, 1.6 km**: About 20 minutes on foot. (Exact point) https://openindex.co.uk/map/stations?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **6 schools within 800 m**: Nearest is 360 m away. (Exact point) https://openindex.co.uk/map/schools?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **No property in RG5 3BZ listed at risk of flooding**: From rivers or the sea, with flood defences, in the Environment Agency's assessment. (Postcode) https://openindex.co.uk/map/flood-risk-by-postcode?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **England’s least deprived 30%**: This neighbourhood, Wokingham 005B. (Neighbourhood) https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-england?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **£496,537 average price**: For the whole of Wokingham, July 2026. (Council) https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-prices?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **1 GP practice within 1 km**: Nearest is 320 m away. (Postcode) https://openindex.co.uk/map/gp-practices?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **7 supermarkets within 1 km**: Nearest is 190 m away. (Exact point) https://openindex.co.uk/map/supermarkets?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **Gigabit broadband for every home and business at RG5 3BZ**: Superfast for 100%. What can be ordered, January 2026. (Postcode) https://openindex.co.uk/map/broadband-by-postcode?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **Moderate road and rail noise at RG5 3BZ**: Road 55 dB, rail under 40 dB or not modelled (Lden, modelled for 2021) (Postcode) https://openindex.co.uk/map/noise-by-postcode?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **Not in a radon Affected Area**: Under 1% of homes in this 1 km square are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level. (1 km grid) https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ
- **10.1 µg/m³ nitrogen dioxide**: Modelled yearly average for this 1 km square, 2025. (1 km grid) https://openindex.co.uk/map/nitrogen-dioxide?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ

## Nearest schools

| School | Phase | Distance | Ofsted | Results |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Ambleside Centre](https://openindex.co.uk/school/the-ambleside-centre-e109759) | Nursery | 360 m (4 minutes on foot) | Report card, July 2026: safeguarding met | – |
| [Beechwood Primary School](https://openindex.co.uk/school/beechwood-primary-school-e147023) | Primary | 380 m (5 minutes on foot) | Report card, June 2026: safeguarding met | 53% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25) |
| [St Dominic Savio Catholic Primary School](https://openindex.co.uk/school/st-dominic-savio-catholic-primary-school-e110041) | Primary | 430 m (5 minutes on foot) | Standards maintained, April 2025 | 90% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25) |
| [The Bulmershe School](https://openindex.co.uk/school/the-bulmershe-school-e149611) | Secondary | 640 m (8 minutes on foot) | No outcome in Ofsted's file | Attainment 8 of 50.6 (2025/26, provisional) |
| [Highwood Primary School](https://openindex.co.uk/school/highwood-primary-school-e149998) | Primary | 650 m (8 minutes on foot) | Good (overall), December 2021, before the school changed | – |
| [Addington School](https://openindex.co.uk/school/addington-school-e151046) | Special | 670 m (8 minutes on foot) | School remains Outstanding, March 2023 | – |
| [South Lake Primary School](https://openindex.co.uk/school/south-lake-primary-school-e150004) | Primary | 860 m (11 minutes on foot) | Graded inspection, May 2025: no overall grade | 77% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25) |
| [Rivermead Primary School](https://openindex.co.uk/school/rivermead-primary-school-e149521) | Primary | 1 km (13 minutes on foot) | Report card, March 2026: safeguarding met | 70% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25) |

## Recent sales nearby

| Month | Price | Home | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| August 2025 | £500,000 | Semi-detached, established, freehold | 70 m |
| September 2025 | £525,000 | Detached, established, freehold | 100 m |
| April 2024 | £370,000 | Terraced, established, freehold | 110 m |
| July 2026 | £685,000 | Detached, established, freehold | 130 m |
| August 2023 | £512,000 | Semi-detached, established, freehold | 140 m |
| September 2025 | £475,000 | Semi-detached, established, freehold | 220 m |
| April 2026 | £750,000 | Detached, established, freehold | 230 m |
| November 2025 | £400,000 | Terraced, established, freehold | 230 m |

## Within 1 km

- GP practices: WOODLEY PRACTICE (320 m)
- Pharmacies: BOOTS (240 m)
- Dental practices: WOODLEY DENTAL PRACTICE (240 m); J CROSTHWAITE'S DENTAL SURGERY (720 m); LODDON BRIDGE ROAD (DENTAL SURGERY) (720 m)
- Supermarkets: Morrisons Daily Reading Woodley (190 m, Morrisons); Iceland Woodley Reading (250 m, Iceland); Lidl Woodley Reading (270 m, Lidl); Waitrose Woodley (330 m, Waitrose); Morrisons Daily Woodley (700 m, Morrisons)

## Key figures

- **Average house price: £496,537** (July 2026). Wokingham’s average house price was £496,537 in July 2026 (HM Land Registry). Down 0.9% in a year. Source: UK House Price Index, July 2026. Published 16 September 2026.
- **Median full-time pay: £52,222** (2025). Full-time workers living in Wokingham earned a median of £52,222 in 2025 (ONS earnings survey). 7th highest paid of 348. Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025. Published 23 October 2025.
- **House price to pay: 9.5×** (2025). A home in Wokingham costs 9.5 times local full-time pay. Joint 66th least affordable of 348. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UK House Price Index and the ONS earnings survey. Published 16 September 2026.
- **Deprivation score: 6.1** (2025). Wokingham has a deprivation score of 6.1 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG). 2nd least deprived of 296. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, 2025. Published 30 October 2025.

## Wokingham 005B (Neighbourhood)

- **Deprivation score: 9.3** (2025). Wokingham 005B has a deprivation score of 9.3 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG). Joint 7,844th least deprived of 33,755. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, 2025. Published 30 October 2025.
- **Median sale price: £480,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Wokingham 005B was £480,000 in 2025. Joint 5,297th most expensive of 31,750. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026.
- **Population: 1,639** (2021). Wokingham 005B had 1,639 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). Joint 16,235th most populated of 46,844. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026.
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 93.3%** (January 2026). In Wokingham 005B, 93.3% 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.

## RG5 (Postcode district)

- **Median sale price: £450,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in RG5 was £450,000 in 2025. Joint 412th most expensive of 2,235. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026.
- **Population: 28,019** (2021). RG5 had 28,019 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 1,027th 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.
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 7%** (2022). About 7% of people in RG5 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.
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 97.0%** (January 2026). In RG5, 97.0% 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.

## About

- Type: Postcode
- Council: [Wokingham](https://openindex.co.uk/wokingham)
- Centre: 51.4541, -0.9085

Council: [Wokingham](https://openindex.co.uk/wokingham) (Unitary authority, 100%).

## Your MP

- [Earley and Woodley](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/earley-and-woodley): Yuan Yang (Labour), MP since July 2024.

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

## Sources

- [Street-level crime](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/street-crime), August 2026 (Map point)
- [Rail and Tube stations](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/stations), 2024/25 (Exact point)
- [Schools](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/schools) (Exact point)
- [Flood risk by postcode](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/flood-risk-by-postcode), June 2026 (Postcode)
- [English Indices of Deprivation 2025](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/deprivation-england), 2025 (Neighbourhood)
- [Average house price](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/house-prices), July 2026 (Council)
- [GP practices](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/gp-practices) (Postcode)
- [Supermarkets](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/supermarkets) (Exact point)
- [Broadband by postcode](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/broadband-by-postcode), January 2026 (Postcode)
- [Road and rail noise by postcode](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/noise-by-postcode), 2021 (Postcode)
- [Radon potential](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/radon) (1 km grid)
- [Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/nitrogen-dioxide), 2025 (1 km grid)

On the map: https://openindex.co.uk/map/sold-prices?around=-0.9085,51.4541,RG53BZ

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