Neighbourhoods in West Berkshire
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22 neighbourhoods · 99 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Newbury Central & Greenham | £1,016 | +2.6% | 73 | 25 |
| Thatcham Town | £1,111 | +2.6% | 29 | 71 |
| Newbury North West | £1,117 | +2.6% | 49 | 66 |
| Newbury Clay Hill | £1,139 | +2.6% | 72 | 80 |
| Thatcham West | £1,154 | +2.6% | 56 | 83 |
| Calcot South | £1,154 | +2.6% | 51 | 70 |
| Hungerford | £1,191 | +2.6% | 50 | 69 |
| Calcot North & Little Heath | £1,204 | +2.6% | 70 | 83 |
| Lambourn & Great Shefford | £1,205 | +2.6% | 14 | 75 |
| Thatcham North East | £1,208 | +2.6% | 59 | 89 |
| Theale & Beenham | £1,221 | +2.6% | 44 | 64 |
| Newbury South West | £1,225 | +2.6% | 70 | 77 |
| Purley on Thames | £1,279 | +2.6% | 39 | 84 |
| Westwood | £1,302 | +2.6% | 78 | 94 |
| Newbury Wash Common | £1,312 | +2.6% | 74 | 93 |
| Mortimer & Aldermaston Wharf | £1,323 | +2.6% | 7 | 75 |
| Burghfield Common | £1,329 | +2.6% | 11 | 72 |
| Thatcham South East & Bradfield | £1,459 | +2.6% | 33 | 75 |
| Kintbury & Boxford | £1,483 | +2.6% | 35 | 91 |
| Chieveley, East Isley & Compton | £1,542 | +2.6% | 5 | 83 |
| Hermitage & Cold Ash | £1,543 | +2.6% | 19 | 97 |
| Streatley & Pangbourne | £1,577 | +2.6% | 19 | 90 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in West Berkshire
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in West Berkshire. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the West Berkshire median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across West Berkshire.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in West Berkshire
Crime in West Berkshire runs at 44% below the national average. Above median (#118 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 56.3, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in West Berkshire
100% of schools serving West Berkshire are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in West Berkshire
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from West Berkshire
West Berkshire has 0.64 jobs per resident locally. Top quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about West Berkshire
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in West Berkshire?
- The median monthly rent across West Berkshire is £1,273, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in West Berkshire?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in West Berkshire by estimated median rent is Newbury Central & Greenham at approximately £1,016/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in West Berkshire?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in West Berkshire is Westwood at 78/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is West Berkshire a safe area?
- West Berkshire has an average safety score of 74/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in West Berkshire?
- The most common council tax band in West Berkshire is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,116. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within West Berkshire.
- What is the average salary in West Berkshire?
- The median annual resident salary in West Berkshire is £38,513, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in West Berkshire, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in West Berkshire?
- The average property price in West Berkshire is approximately £402,630 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in West Berkshire?
- Gross rental yield in West Berkshire is approximately 3.3% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in West Berkshire?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 5.5 years in West Berkshire. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in West Berkshire?
- 100% of premises in West Berkshire are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in West Berkshire?
- 2.4% of 16-64 residents in West Berkshire are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in West Berkshire?
- West Berkshire contains 22 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 99 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in West Berkshire
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- West Berkshire 019D
- West Berkshire 013A
- West Berkshire 012A
- West Berkshire 020C
- West Berkshire 013B
- West Berkshire 006E
- West Berkshire 017D
- West Berkshire 016D
- West Berkshire 007E
- West Berkshire 008C
- West Berkshire 016A
- West Berkshire 021C
- West Berkshire 009D
- West Berkshire 008A
- West Berkshire 018B
- West Berkshire 006B
- West Berkshire 010A
- West Berkshire 008D
- West Berkshire 006C
- West Berkshire 015D
- West Berkshire 017C
- West Berkshire 015B
- West Berkshire 007A
- West Berkshire 019H
- West Berkshire 012B
- West Berkshire 004A
- West Berkshire 003C
- West Berkshire 014D
- West Berkshire 019G
- West Berkshire 020D
- West Berkshire 020A
- West Berkshire 021E
- West Berkshire 019I
- West Berkshire 011B
- West Berkshire 016C
- West Berkshire 019B
- West Berkshire 022C
- West Berkshire 021D
- West Berkshire 009B
- West Berkshire 020E
- West Berkshire 004B
- West Berkshire 003D
- West Berkshire 001C
- West Berkshire 010D
- West Berkshire 006D
- West Berkshire 016B
- West Berkshire 022A
- West Berkshire 016E
- West Berkshire 015C
- West Berkshire 017B
- West Berkshire 008B
- West Berkshire 002B
- West Berkshire 011C
- West Berkshire 007F
- West Berkshire 013C
- West Berkshire 005C
- West Berkshire 019E
- West Berkshire 001D
- West Berkshire 021B
- West Berkshire 001B
- West Berkshire 019F
- West Berkshire 018D
- West Berkshire 013D
- West Berkshire 004D
- West Berkshire 014A
- West Berkshire 022B
- West Berkshire 009C
- West Berkshire 017A
- West Berkshire 015A
- West Berkshire 011F
- West Berkshire 012E
- West Berkshire 020B
- West Berkshire 002C
- West Berkshire 009A
- West Berkshire 011A
- West Berkshire 005D
- West Berkshire 003A
- West Berkshire 014B
- West Berkshire 004C
- West Berkshire 002A
Showing 80 of 99 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.