Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates
WardWest Wokingham. About 10,935 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 30% of people in Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates at a rate of 53.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 44.6 per 1,000 people across Wokingham.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 52 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (237), other crime (97) and anti-social behaviour (77).
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 Wokingham
These figures are published for the whole of Wokingham, not for each ward, so they describe all of Wokingham and not Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates alone. See Wokingham
Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates in brief
Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates had 10,564 usual residents at the census.
About 30% of people in Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates, 98.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates, 2.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.