Postcodes in Reading District

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This article covers information about postcodes in Reading's local authority district. Reading is an administrative area in Berkshire County. Reading district is further divided into 16 Wards.

Below is a complete list of Reading Postcodes, it has 3785 active postcodes. Reading contains approximately 62873 residential properties with a population of about 155696.

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Reading Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 155696
Addresses / Property Count 62873
Active Postcodes 3785
County Berkshire
No Of Wards in Reading 16

What is a District

The United Kingdom is primarily divided into large area blocks called Counties. A district is an administrative block in the UK and part of a County council area. The district is also the second-largest administrative block in the UK after counties. These are also known as local authority districts and are different from city districts. Reading is a local authority district in Berkshire county. Districts are majorly categorized into 4 types namely:

  • Non-Metropolitan districts
  • Unitary authority areas
  • Metropolitan boroughs
  • London boroughs

Sub Divisions Of a district

Districts are subdivided into different local administrative blocks. Other categories of local administrative blocks that comes under district authority are as follows:

  • Parish
  • Wards
  • Cities

Wards in Reading

There are 16 wards in the district. Below is a list of the wards. You can click on any ward link to view the postcodes of that ward.

Abbey Battle Caversham Caversham Heights Church Coley Emmer Green Katesgrove Kentwood Norcot Park Redlands Southcote Thames Tilehurst Whitley

View Map Of Reading Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of Reading, zoom to view all the pointers. If you click on any pointer you can see the ward name. Below the ward name, you can see a link called view postcodes. Click on the link to see the postcodes for that ward.

List of Reading postcodes


showing 3800-3785 of 3785 active postcodes in Reading
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
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