Reading 018C
NeighbourhoodSouth Reading. 2,101 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.0 square kilometre.
Deprivation by neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025
In the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, Reading 018C is in decile 4.
How Reading 018C compares
Each dot is a neighbourhood. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Reading 018C safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Reading 018C at a rate of 141.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 98.7 per 1,000 people across Whitley Wood.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 33 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Reading 018C.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (133), other crime (49) and shoplifting (31).
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.
Figures for the whole of Reading
These figures are published for the whole of Reading, not for each neighbourhood, so they describe all of Reading and not Reading 018C alone. See Reading
Reading 018C in brief
Reading 018C has a deprivation score of 22.4 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
The median price paid for a home in Reading 018C was £331,000 in 2025.
Reading 018C had 1,986 usual residents at the census.
In Reading 018C, 99.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.