Caversham

18°CMist

• Today: 25° / 16° · 57% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 13° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:23

12h 47m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Reading New Town, United Kingdom

566 reported · July 2026▲ 21% YoY

• Shoplifting174
• Violence & sexual offences151
• Public order47
• Anti-social behaviour37

55 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Peppard and Caversham · Thames Valley

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

251 reported road collisions (2024)

31 killed or seriously injured · 277 casualties · 14.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 370 rated 4–5 ★ (280 top)
• 32 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Reading (1.0 km)
• 54 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£361,243 average▲ 0.9% YoY

Across Reading · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,573 average monthly rent▲ 1.9% YoY

• 1 bed £1,115
• 2 bed £1,392
• 3 bed £1,670

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

7.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.1 times median annual pay (8.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · BP (1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Asda (7.6 km)

19 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

105 charging locations within ~8 km

• 28 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 360 kW
• Nearest: Chester Street Car Park (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres7
• Gyms13
• Swimming pools7
• Sports pitches28
• Playgrounds12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

174,224 residents in Reading · 4,313/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 69%
• 65+: 12%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 141 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

5% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,613 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (41% of 77,290)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

72 schools · 26,837 pupils

41 primary · 11 secondary · 20 other

Ofsted: 24 of 26 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

62inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Reading

189 CQC-registered services

• Care homes32
• GP practices33
• Dentists34
• Homecare agencies61
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 86% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Reading

• Not in the Green Belt
• 167 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

148 applications decided

87.8% granted · 130 granted, 18 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Matt Rodda

Labour

Reading Central

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 29
• Con 5
• LD 3
• Grn 11

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools12
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies7
• Supermarkets6
• Parks & greens24
• Restaurants & cafés194

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,195 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

477 jobs advertised · £42,025 avg

e.g. Reliability Maintenance Engineering Technician, Maths Teacher, PE Teacher

Source: Adzuna

£805 median full-time weekly pay

4.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,812 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

48% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 89,722 certificates

10.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

30% low-carbon electricity

Gas 62% · Wind 14% · Biomass 9% · Imports 8%

256 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.5 yrs women · 78.9 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 63 women · 61.7 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Reading Central:

• Offer MenB vaccine to under 22s born before 2015548 local signatures · 3,696 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership441 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership341 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s320 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office185 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  West Memorial Hall · 0.1 km

  The West Memorial Hall, or West Memorial Institute, is a Victorian Grade II listed building at 7-9 Gosbrook Road, Caversham, Berkshire, designed by Alfred Waterhouse. The Hall is a former Baptist Free Church that has…

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  Caversham, Reading · 0.1 km

  Caversham is a village and a suburb of Reading in Berkshire, England, located directly north of Reading town centre across the River Thames. Caversham rises from the River Thames, lying on flood plain and the lowest r…

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  Queen Anne's School · 0.4 km

  Queen Anne's School is a private boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18, situated on a 35-acre (14 ha) campus in Caversham. There are around 450 pupils. Nearly half are full, weekly or flexi-boarders. The sch…

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  Hemdean House School · 0.4 km

  Hemdean House School was a mixed, independent, primary and nursery school for children aged 3–11. It was situated in the centre of Caversham in Reading, Berkshire, England. The school operated as a non-profit register…

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  Pipers Island · 0.4 km

  Pipers Island, or Piper's Island, is the third smallest map-named island in the River Thames, in England. It is on the Reading, Berkshire reach the head of water above Caversham Lock. It is toward the edge of the cent…

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  Caversham (Reading ward) · 0.4 km

  Caversham is an electoral ward of the Borough of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. In a set of boundary changes in 2022, the boundaries of Caversham ward were significantly changed, gaining area from the fo…

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