Reading - Regeneration

• Only 12% of people in Reading have no educational qualifications
• 40% of people in Reading have a unversity degree
• Reading's professionals earn £700 a week - double Middlesborough's
• The average house price is £350,000
• Reading's male life expectancy is 81
• Only 65% of Reading's population is white (very diverse)
• Connects to M4 - close to London
• Reading is a London overspill town
• 2016 quality of life survey - 6/138