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On Austin Road, in Southlake
What it's like at RG5 4EL: every home that has sold on Austin Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Austin Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 62 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 23, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £525,000 | 149 m² | £3,523/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2008 | £175,000 | 66 m² | £2,652/m² | 1 |
| 28, Austin RoadSemi-detached | May 2025 | £425,000 | 84 m² | £5,060/m² | 4 |
| 29, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2022 | £410,000 | 79 m² | £5,190/m² | 1 |
| 30, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2014 | £315,500 | 93 m² | £3,392/m² | 2 |
| 33, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2001 | £130,000 | 92 m² | £1,413/m² | 1 |
| 34, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1996 | £75,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 37, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2018 | £420,000 | 169 m² | £2,485/m² | 1 |
| 38, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2016 | £350,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 40, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2021 | £395,000 | 86 m² | £4,593/m² | 6 |
| 41, Austin RoadSemi-detached | May 2010 | £239,000 | 79 m² | £3,025/m² | 3 |
| 43, Austin RoadSemi-detached | May 2017 | £355,000 | 84 m² | £4,226/m² | 3 |
| 44, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2014 | £277,000 | 66 m² | £4,197/m² | 1 |
| 45, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Mar 1996 | £77,500 | 95 m² | £816/m² | 1 |
| 46, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2025 | £475,000 | 140 m² | £3,393/m² | 4 |
| 47, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £435,000 | 81 m² | £5,370/m² | 1 |
| 49, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2025 | £400,000 | 96 m² | £4,167/m² | 1 |
| 50, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2024 | £410,000 | 79 m² | £5,190/m² | 1 |
| 52, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2010 | £215,000 | 87 m² | £2,471/m² | 2 |
| 53, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2025 | £444,500 | 89 m² | £4,994/m² | 4 |
| 54, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2005 | £220,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 55, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Apr 1996 | £77,950 | 77 m² | £1,012/m² | 1 |
| 56, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Aug 1998 | £114,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 57, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Apr 1997 | £84,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 58, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2018 | £400,000 | 124 m² | £3,226/m² | 2 |
| 59, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Apr 1997 | £89,950 | 105 m² | £857/m² | 1 |
| 60, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Sept 1996 | £76,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 61, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2024 | £450,000 | 92 m² | £4,891/m² | 5 |
| 62, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £580,000 | 159 m² | £3,648/m² | 2 |
| 63, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1999 | £105,450 | – | – | 1 |
| 67, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2012 | £237,000 | 82 m² | £2,890/m² | 1 |
| 69, Austin RoadTerraced | Nov 2019 | £300,000 | 90 m² | £3,333/m² | 1 |
| 69a, Austin RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2020 | £240,000 | 60 m² | £4,000/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 44% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Winnersh Triangle, a short drive or bike ride (1.2 km), with 218k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Reading.
The nearest bus stop is Austin Road, 200 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 19c); 16 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 54 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 10% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Rivermead Primary School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 70% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is St Dominic Savio Catholic Primary School (1.5 km).
The nearest secondary is The Bulmershe School, 1.8 km away; Attainment 8: 50.7 · 20.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Maiden Erlegh School (1.6 km) and The Holt School (5.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Reading School (3.4 km) and Kendrick School (4.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 950 m away, with Londis closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Loddon Vale Practice (800 m), with Day Lewis Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, Finn Hair is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 3.8 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 62% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 81% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 2 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Toddler Church is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and The Good Companions the nearest pub (500 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 10% flats and 17% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Vauxhall Park, 300 m away; for exercise, Bulmershe Gymnastics Club (1.9 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Heathrow is 31 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
8 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Earley and Woodley constituency: Yuan Yang MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 848 (1.8%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Conservative 38%, Liberal Democrat 13%, Green Party 7%.
7 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near RG5 4EL →
The nearest university is University of Reading, 3.8 km away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 48 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 47 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.5% | 92.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 1.0% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.7% | 5.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.3% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 62 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.