Borrowing estimates for Reading, built from published survey rates and population figures.
An estimated 129,000 adults in Reading held at least one credit or loan product in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 89% of adults in the South East held at least one credit or loan product (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 144,995 adults aged 18 and over in Reading (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 106,000 adults in Reading held a credit card in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 73% of adults in the South East held a credit card (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 144,995 adults aged 18 and over in Reading (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 30,400 adults in Reading were overdrawn on a current account in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 21% of adults in the South East were overdrawn on a current account (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 144,995 adults aged 18 and over in Reading (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 42,000 adults in Reading had a residential mortgage in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 29% of adults in the South East had a residential mortgage (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 144,995 adults aged 18 and over in Reading (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 26,100 adults in Reading used buy now, pay later credit in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 18% of adults in the South East used buy now, pay later credit (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 144,995 adults aged 18 and over in Reading (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 8,120 adults in Reading held high-cost credit in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 5.6% of adults in the South East held high-cost credit (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 144,995 adults aged 18 and over in Reading (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 30,400 adults in Reading had low financial resilience in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 21% of adults in the South East had low financial resilience (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 144,995 adults aged 18 and over in Reading (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 8,700 adults in Reading were in financial difficulty in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 6% of adults in the South East were in financial difficulty (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 144,995 adults aged 18 and over in Reading (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
The estimated population aged 16 and over in Reading was 150,576 at mid-2025.
Source: Population estimates - local authority based by single year of age (Nomis NM_2002_1), mid-year estimates, Office for National Statistics, 30 June 2025
ONS mid-2025 population estimates (published 29 July 2026 for England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland as carried in the same Nomis table), local authority boundaries as of April 2023, usual residents, as returned by the Nomis 'Aged 16+' category.
An estimated 129,000 adults in Reading held at least one credit or loan product in 2024. An estimated 106,000 adults in Reading held a credit card in 2024. An estimated 30,400 adults in Reading were overdrawn on a current account in 2024.
An estimated 129,000 adults in Reading held at least one credit or loan product in 2024.
An estimated 106,000 adults in Reading held a credit card in 2024.
An estimated 30,400 adults in Reading were overdrawn on a current account in 2024.