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What is it like to live in Thatcham?

Homes sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 419 of the 527 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 178 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 74 of its 533 postcodes. It has 6 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Thatcham, 1.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Thatcham?

Homes in Thatcham sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 318 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £350,000 from 413 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £485,000 69 sales
• Semi-detached £351,500 123 sales
• Terraced £320,000 91 sales
• Flat or maisonette £180,000 35 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole RG19 district, Thatcham's main postcode district: a typical £355,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Thatcham: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Thatcham?

9 of the 533 postcodes now in use in Thatcham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 413 homes sold in Thatcham were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the RG19 district, 15%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Thatcham?

Ofcom reports on 527 of the 533 postcodes in Thatcham. At 419 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Thatcham at risk of flooding?

74 of the 533 postcodes in Thatcham have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 178 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Thatcham?

The open schools at the postcodes in Thatcham. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Thatcham?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Thatcham is Thatcham Rail Station, 1.5 km away in a straight line.

• Thatcham Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
• Newbury Racecourse Rail Station Railway station 3.4 kmCycle
• Newbury Rail Station Railway station 4.5 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Thatcham?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Thatcham. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Thatcham Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01635 867171 250 mWalk
• Burdwood Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2026 · Phone 01635 868006 1.3 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Thatcham safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,412 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Thatcham over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: vehicle crime 32, burglary 22, bicycle theft 17, robbery 17, theft from the person 6, possession of weapons 3.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Thatcham?

Council

West Berkshire

Parliamentary constituencies

Newbury (532) and Reading West and Mid Berkshire (1)

Police force area

Thames Valley

Region

South East

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.