Woodley
TownTown in Wokingham, South East.
Woodley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Woodley add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Woodley, 97.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Woodley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Woodley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Woodley at a rate of 40.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 93 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Woodley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (497), other crime (228) and anti-social behaviour (143).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Woodley was 43.7 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Woodley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Woodley has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 11 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Woodley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wokingham 003A | 1,548 | 30.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Wokingham 003B | 1,525 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| Wokingham 003C | 1,398 | 16.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wokingham 003D | 1,585 | 65.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Wokingham 004A | 1,164 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Wokingham 004C | 2,748 | 32.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.3% |
| Wokingham 004D | 1,410 | 25.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Wokingham 004E | 1,706 | 19.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wokingham 005A | 1,524 | 73.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Wokingham 005B | 1,639 | 104.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.3% |
| Wokingham 005C | 2,067 | 23.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.8% |
| Wokingham 005D | 1,757 | 90.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.3% |
| Wokingham 007A | 1,301 | 21.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Wokingham 007B | 1,606 | 30.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| Wokingham 007C | 1,141 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Wokingham 007D | 1,231 | 18.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wokingham 007E | 2,120 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.8% |
| Wokingham 007F | 1,375 | 19.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Yuan YangLabourMP for Earley and Woodley
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Woodley1
Middle areas in Woodley4
Towns near Woodley6
Woodley in brief
Woodley is a town in Wokingham, South East.
About 28,720 people lived in Woodley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £450,000 in 2025 across 391 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 40.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Woodley was £450,000 in 2025.
Woodley had 28,019 usual residents at the census.
In Woodley, 97.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Woodley, 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.