Chapel Green

17°CClear

• Today: 22° / 13° · 36% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 12° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:30Sunset 19:29

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Reading New Town, United Kingdom

97 reported · July 2026▲ 24% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences23
• Shoplifting22
• Anti-social behaviour16
• Other theft11

5 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Wokingham Town · Thames Valley

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

160 reported road collisions (2024)

19 killed or seriously injured · 181 casualties · 9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

249 food businesses within 2 miles

• 220 rated 4–5 ★ (188 top)
• 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Wokingham (1.5 km)
• 3 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£498,941 average▼ 3.1% YoY

Across Wokingham · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,470 average monthly rent▲ 2.4% YoY

• 1 bed £1,056
• 2 bed £1,349
• 3 bed £1,650

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

10.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.5 times median annual pay (11.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 164.9p · Asda (6.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.9p · Asda (6.5 km)

22 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

76 charging locations within ~8 km

• 16 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Tesco Superstore - Wokingham (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms2
• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches11
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

177,502 residents in Wokingham · 992/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 316 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,498 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (28% of 75,150)

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

84 schools · 33,224 pupils

54 primary · 9 secondary · 21 other

Ofsted: 22 of 24 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

71inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wokingham

168 CQC-registered services

• Care homes45
• GP practices24
• Dentists38
• Homecare agencies50

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wokingham

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

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

269 applications decided

93.7% granted · 252 granted, 17 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Clive Jones

Liberal Democrat

Wokingham

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat majority

• Lab 5
• Con 19
• LD 29
• Grn 1

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

• Schools9
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets5
• Parks & greens6
• Restaurants & cafés42

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,295 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£954 median full-time weekly pay

2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£32,259 disposable income per head (2024)

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

52% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 73,180 certificates

6.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

91% low-carbon electricity

Solar 89% · Imports 5% · Gas 4% · Nuclear 2%

17 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 87.3 yrs women · 82.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 69.4 women · 68 men

58% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Wokingham:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership398 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s397 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership310 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases309 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office282 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

• Luckley House School · 0.5 km

  Luckley House School is an independent day and boarding school, located in Berkshire in England. It has a community of about 380 pupils, with about 290 in the first five-year groups, and 90 in the Sixth Form. The scho…

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  Ludgrove School · 0.6 km

  Ludgrove School is an English independent boys' preparatory boarding school. Ludgrove was founded in 1892 at Ludgrove Hall in Middlesex by the Old Etonian sportsman Arthur Dunn. Dunn had been employed as a master at E…

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  Wixenford School · 0.6 km

  Wixenford School, also known as Wixenford Preparatory School and Wixenford-Eversley, was a private preparatory school for boys near Wokingham, England, founded in 1869. A feeder school for Eton, after it closed in 193…

• Wixenford · 0.6 km

  Wixenford is an area of the civil parish of Wokingham Without in which Ludgrove School stands. It adjoins Wokingham and is in the English county of Berkshire.

• Wokingham Rural District · 1.1 km

  Wokingham Rural District was a rural district in the county of Berkshire, England. It was created in 1894. It was named after and administered from Wokingham, though this was a separate municipal borough.

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  Wokingham Town Hall · 1.1 km

  Wokingham Town Hall is a municipal building in Wokingham, Berkshire, England. The building is the meeting place of Wokingham Town Council and is a Grade II* listed building.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)