Abbey
WardEast Reading. About 12,051 people in 1.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Abbey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Abbey compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Abbey safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Abbey at a rate of 429.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 111.5 per 1,000 people across Reading.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 415 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Abbey.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,331), other crime (1,020) and shoplifting (1,011).
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 ward, so they describe all of Reading and not Abbey alone. See Reading
Abbey in brief
Abbey had 10,150 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Abbey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Abbey, 78.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Abbey, 5.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.