Southcote
WardSouth west Reading. About 11,429 people in 3.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 53% of people in Southcote live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Southcote compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Southcote safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Southcote at a rate of 126.1 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, 136 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Southcote.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (728), other crime (308) and anti-social behaviour (173).
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 Southcote alone. See Reading
Southcote in brief
Southcote had 10,982 usual residents at the census.
About 53% of people in Southcote live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Southcote, 97.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Southcote, 4.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.