RG5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

504 of the district's 675 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.45205, -0.89959, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in RG5

Companies House lists 1,264 companies with a registered office in RG5; 67 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for RG5

• South East
• Woodley
• Wokingham
• Reading

Roads filed under RG5

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Addington Gardens
• Alderley Close
• Ambleside Close
• Anthian Close
• Antrim Road
• Armstrong Way
• Arundel Road
• Ashtrees Road
• Ashwood
• Austin Road
• Badgers Rise
• Bakers Place
• Beaufield Close
• Beaver Way
• Beechwood Avenue
• Bibury Close
• Bideford Close
• Bingley Grove
• Blanchard Close
• Blossom Grove
• Bluebell Crescent
• Bodmin Road
• Bosworth Gardens
• Boulters Close
• Brandon Avenue
• Brecon Road
• Brigade Walk
• Bruce Road
• Brunel Drive
• Buccaneer Close
• Buckden Close
• Burgess Close
• Burns Close
• Buttercup Lane
• Butts Hill Road
• Caldbeck Drive
• Campbell Road
• Caribou Close
• Carlton Close
• Carpenters Close
• Carrick Gardens
• Cartmel Drive
• Catalina Close
• Chaffey Close
• Chard Close
• Chequers Way
• Church Mews
• Church Road
• Clivedale Road
• Clover Rise
• Cobham Road
• Cody Close
• Colemans Moor Lane
• Colemans Moor Road
• Comet Way
• Concorde Way
• Coniston Close
• Constable Close
• Consul Close
• Coppice Road

Check an address in RG5

Check an address in RG5

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=RG5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about RG5

What does an RG5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the RG5 district of the RG (Reading) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Woodley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 504 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest RG5

• RG62.5 km
• RG104.6 km
• RG414.7 km
• RG14.9 km
• RG25.1 km
• RG45.9 km
• RG407.3 km
• RG308.0 km
• RG3110.2 km
• RG4210.2 km
• RG910.5 km
• RG4511.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids