Katesgrove
WardSouth east Reading. About 12,857 people in 1.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 66% of people in Katesgrove live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Katesgrove compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Katesgrove safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Katesgrove at a rate of 89.1 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, 135 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Katesgrove.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (471), other crime (257) and anti-social behaviour (157).
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 Katesgrove alone. See Reading
Katesgrove in brief
Katesgrove had 11,930 usual residents at the census.
About 66% of people in Katesgrove live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Katesgrove, 98.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Katesgrove, 4.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.