Caversham
TownTown in Reading, South East.
Caversham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Caversham add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Caversham, 99.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Caversham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Caversham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Caversham at a rate of 53.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 151 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Caversham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (592), shoplifting (369) and other crime (301).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Caversham was 47.6 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Caversham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Caversham has no single figure. Of its 20 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 11 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Caversham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading 001A | 1,571 | 48.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.9% |
| Reading 001B | 1,443 | 31.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Reading 001C | 1,802 | 35.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Reading 001D | 1,653 | 30.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.3% |
| Reading 001E | 1,530 | 22.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Reading 002A | 1,514 | 28.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.4% |
| Reading 002B | 1,576 | 15.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| Reading 002C | 1,754 | 29.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Reading 002D | 1,452 | 19.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Reading 002E | 1,454 | 25.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.8% |
| Reading 003A | 1,436 | 69.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% |
| Reading 003B | 1,863 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.4% |
| Reading 003C | 1,696 | 22.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Reading 003D | 1,922 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Reading 003E | 1,669 | 29.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Reading 004A | 1,806 | 187.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
| Reading 004B | 1,947 | 65.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Reading 004C | 1,699 | 90.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| Reading 004D | 1,593 | 160.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Reading 004E | 1,655 | 52.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Matt RoddaLabourMP for Reading Central
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Caversham1
Middle areas in Caversham4
Towns near Caversham6
Caversham in brief
Caversham is a town in Reading, South East.
About 32,846 people lived in Caversham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £468,500 in 2025 across 485 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 53.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Caversham was £468,500 in 2025.
Caversham had 33,038 usual residents at the census.
In Caversham, 99.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Caversham, 2.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.