Reading house prices, schools and crime

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174,224 people · median £340,000

Reading Council · Labour-controlled 29/48 seats · 60% · OCD 2026

Prices

The median sold price in Reading is £340,000.

Streets

Schools

Reading’s schools: 93% of inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, 2 grammars.

Crime

Reading records 11 crimes per 1,000 residents a month.

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How safe is it? This district

Crime runs at 11 per 1,000 residents a month — above the 9.5 average across districts Acreright covers. Like most places with a retail centre, offences cluster where the shops are, not where people live.

Crime rate

Monthly recorded crimes across the whole district

Per 1,000 / month11

Average across Acreright-covered districts9.5

Street-level counts · police.uk, last 12 months

By category, 12 months district

Violence and sexual offences

6,928

Shoplifting

3,013

Anti-social behaviour

1,784

Other theft

1,565

Public order

1,498

Criminal damage and arson

1,135

Recorded crimes by category across the whole district, last 12 months · police.uk / Home Office

Where crime clusters

On or near	Crimes
Supermarket	928
Shopping Area	584
Parking Area	527
Petrol Station	459
Cross Street	213

Busiest anonymised "on or near" markers over the last 6 months — click a row to centre the crime map there · retail-heavy spots naturally rank high (shoplifting concentrates where the shops are), and some forces log crimes at their police station, so a station can rank high without the crime happening there · police.uk

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