Woodley

11°COvercast

• Today: 19° / 11° · 33% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 13° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:29Sunset 19:31

13h 3m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Reading New Town, United Kingdom

95 reported · July 2026▲ 44% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences42
• Anti-social behaviour16
• Criminal damage & arson9
• Public order6

2 stop & searches · mostly articles for use in criminal damage

Neighbourhood team: Woodley · 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)

204 food businesses within 2 miles

• 163 rated 4–5 ★ (139 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Winnersh Triangle (1.6 km)
• 36 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: 156.9p · BP (7.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.7p · Asda (10.7 km)

20 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

115 charging locations within ~8 km

• 27 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Loddon Vale Centre (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches8
• Playgrounds20

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
• 21 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

Liberal Democrat majority

• Lab 5
• Con 19
• LD 29
• Grn 1

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

• Schools6
• GPs & clinics5
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens11
• Restaurants & cafés19

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,295 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

99 jobs advertised · £34,966 avg

e.g. Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, Market Research Field Interviewer Car Required, MSP Field Engineer

Source: Adzuna

£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

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 Earley and Woodley:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s392 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership358 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Offer MenB vaccine to under 22s born before 2015307 local signatures · 3,696 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office231 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership227 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Museum of Berkshire Aviation · 0.1 km

  The Museum of Berkshire Aviation is a small aviation museum in Woodley, a town in Berkshire, England. The museum is on the edge of the site of the former Woodley Aerodrome and many of its exhibits relate to the Philli…

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  Dinton Pastures Country Park · 0.5 km

  Dinton Pastures Country Park is a country park in the civil parish of St Nicholas Hurst, in the borough of Wokingham, near Reading in the English county of Berkshire.

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  Emm Brook · 0.6 km

  The Emm Brook, sometimes known as the Embrook or Emmbrook, is a small river in the English county of Berkshire. It is a tributary of the River Loddon which it meets at the village of Hurst.

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  Lodge Wood and Sandford Mill · 0.6 km

  Lodge Wood and Sandford Mill is a 2.3-hectare (5.7-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Woodley in Berkshire.

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  Lavells Lake · 0.6 km

  Lavells Lake is a 12.5-hectare (31-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the outskirts of Woodley, a suburb of Reading in Berkshire. It is owned by Wokingham District Council and managed by the council and The Friends of Lave…

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  Alder Moors · 1.0 km

  Alder Moors is a 8.5-hectare (21-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Woodley, a suburb of Reading in Berkshire. It is owned and managed by Wokingham District Council.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)