Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 8 secondary schools. The Hathaway Academy is the nearest published school at 436 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RM17 5BA
Grays Town · Thurrock · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RM17 5BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM17
- Postcode sector
- RM17 5
- Latitude
- 51.487913
- Longitude
- 0.322208
- British National Grid easting
- 561,323
- British National Grid northing
- 179,108
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Thurrock · E06000034
- Electoral ward
- Grays Town · E05016313
- Parish or community
- E43000029
- Westminster constituency
- Thurrock · E14001546
- Output area
- E00080698
- Lower layer super output area
- Thurrock 009B · E01015958
- Middle layer super output area
- Thurrock 009 · E02003304
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore RM17
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 62, Wallace Road, Grays, RM17 5BA | 12 February 2021 | £320,000 |
| 58, Wallace Road, Grays, RM17 5BA | 8 November 2019 | £275,000 |
| 74, Wallace Road, Grays, RM17 5BA | 26 June 2018 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 43
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 8
- 436 m
The Hathaway Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 497 m
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 774 m
Grays Convent High School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,846
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,383
- Shoplifting 421
- Vehicle crime 317
- Public order 305
- Anti social behaviour 300
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 92
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- RM17 5 residents
- 14,180
44 female, 48 male
Age bands in RM17 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25%
- Age 65 and over
- 14%
2,605 residents
1,519 residents
4,148 residents
3,389 residents
1,898 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RM17 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
19
within 5 km
ODDFELLOWS HALL & ST CLEMENTS
ODDFELLOWS HEALTH CENTRE, DELL ROAD, GRAYS, RM17 5JY
ODS code Y00999
895 m
DELL MEDICAL CENTRE
THE DELL MEDICAL CENTRE, 111 ORSETT ROAD, GRAYS, RM17 5HB
ODS code F81219
946 m
KADIM PRIMECARE MEDICAL CENTRE
167 BRIDGE ROAD, GRAYS, RM17 6DB
ODS code F81623
1.1 km
BALFOUR MEDICAL CENTRE
2 BALFOUR ROAD, GRAYS, RM17 5NS
ODS code F81155
1.1 km
THURROCK HEALTH CENTRE
55-57 HIGH STREET, GRAYS, RM17 6NB
ODS code Y02807
1.2 km
STIFFORD CLAYS MEDICAL CENTRE
CRAMMAVILL STREET, STIFFORD CLAYS, GRAYS, RM16 2AP
ODS code F81192
1.2 km
CHAFFORD HUNDRED MEDICAL CENTRE
DRAKE ROAD, CHAFFORD HUNDRED, GRAYS, RM16 6RS
ODS code F81113
1.3 km
MILTON ROAD AND THE GRAYS SURGERY
78 HIGH STREET, GRAYS, RM17 6HU
ODS code F81641
1.4 km
DR YADAVA N PRACTICE
34 EAST THURROCK ROAD, GRAYS, RM17 6SP
ODS code F81211
1.5 km
SANCTA MARIA MEDICAL CENTRE
DAIGLEN DRIVE, SOUTH OCKENDON, RM15 5SZ
ODS code F81197
3.5 km
DR YASIN SA PRACTICE
DARENTH LANE, SOUTH OCKENDON, RM15 5LP
ODS code F81632
3.5 km
DERRY COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
UNIT 2/3 DERRY COURT, DERRY AVENUE, SOUTH OCKENDON, RM15 5GN
ODS code F81669
3.7 km
SAI MEDICAL CENTRE
105 CALCUTTA ROAD, TILBURY, RM18 7QA
ODS code F81708
3.8 km
MEDIC HOUSE
OTTAWA ROAD, TILBURY, RM18 7RJ
ODS code F81652
3.9 km
COMMONWEALTH HEALTH CENTRE
QUEBEC ROAD, TILBURY, RM18 7RB
ODS code F81206
4.0 km
ORSETT SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 63 ROWLEY ROAD, ORSETT, GRAYS, RM16 3ET
ODS code F81137
4.0 km
TILBURY HEALTH CENTRE
LONDON ROAD, TILBURY, RM18 8EB
ODS code F81110
4.3 km
PEARTREE SURGERY & WEST HORNDON SURGERY
PEAR TREE SURGERY, PEARTREE CLOSE, SOUTH OCKENDON, RM15 6PR
ODS code F81134
4.4 km
AVELEY MEDICAL CENTRE
22 HIGH STREET, AVELEY, SOUTH OCKENDON, RM15 4AD
ODS code F81010
4.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dexter Close
BCT · Grays
- 0.1 miles
Dexter Close
BCT · Grays
- 0.1 miles
Ward Avenue
BCT · Grays
- 0.2 miles
Hathaway Road
BCT · Grays
- 0.2 miles
Hogg Lane
BCT · Grays
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Thurrock 009B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,429 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 11
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,846 published events cover 12 months, averaging 320.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,383 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.