South Lake
WardCentral Wokingham. About 10,163 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.5 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in South Lake live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How South Lake compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is South Lake safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in South Lake at a rate of 52.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 44.6 per 1,000 people across Wokingham.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 60 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in South Lake.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (237), other crime (112) and anti-social behaviour (71).
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 Wokingham
These figures are published for the whole of Wokingham, not for each ward, so they describe all of Wokingham and not South Lake alone. See Wokingham
South Lake in brief
South Lake had 9,915 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in South Lake live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In South Lake, 95.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In South Lake, 2.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.