Reading 004B
NeighbourhoodNorth east Reading. 1,913 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.3 square kilometres.
Deprivation by neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025
In the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, Reading 004B is in decile 2.
How Reading 004B compares
Each dot is a neighbourhood. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Reading 004B safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Reading 004B at a rate of 65.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 111.8 per 1,000 people across Lower Caversham.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 7 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Reading 004B.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (58), other crime (29) and anti-social behaviour (14).
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 Reading
These figures are published for the whole of Reading, not for each neighbourhood, so they describe all of Reading and not Reading 004B alone. See Reading
Reading 004B in brief
Reading 004B has a deprivation score of 34.1 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Reading 004B had 1,947 usual residents at the census.
In Reading 004B, 99.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Reading 004B, 5.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.