Crime Rates at Wantage Road, Reading, RG30 2SN

Wantage Road area has the 15th highest crime rate of 57 local areas in Battle , and the 96th highest crime rate of 488 local areas in Reading .

Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.

The overall crime rate in the area around Wantage Road (RG30 2SN) in the last 12 months was 147.2 per 1,000 residents and was 27.4% higher than the Battle average (115.5 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 19 offences recorded. The least common crime was Criminal damage and arson with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -5.0% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 23 (≈ 76.9 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -8.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 41.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Wantage Road (RG30 2SN), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 70 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Richmond Road (29 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.