Property market
The five-year median is £562,000 from 7 recorded sales in RM2 5BU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Havering is £456,759 in June 2026, up 3.9% year on year.
RM2 5BU
St Edward's · Havering · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RM2 5BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM2
- Postcode sector
- RM2 5
- Latitude
- 51.582198
- Longitude
- 0.196594
- British National Grid easting
- 552,288
- British National Grid northing
- 189,323
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Havering · E09000016
- Electoral ward
- St Edward's · E05013983
- Parish or community
- E43000206
- Westminster constituency
- Romford · E14001448
- Output area
- E00011745
- Lower layer super output area
- Havering 014E · E01002355
- Middle layer super output area
- Havering 014 · E02000477
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 RM2
Property
29 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, The Ridgeway, Gidea Park, Romford, RM2 5BU | 11 May 2026 | £550,000 |
| 9, The Ridgeway, Gidea Park, Romford, RM2 5BU | 19 December 2025 | £630,000 |
| 22, The Ridgeway, Gidea Park, Romford, RM2 5BU | 22 October 2025 | £510,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 96
- Primary
- 62
- Secondary
- 17
- 258 m
Gidea Park Primary School
Community school
- 478 m
Gidea Park Preparatory School and Nursery
Other independent school
- 706 m
Bep Academy
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,160
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,570
- Shoplifting 669
- Anti social behaviour 540
- Public order 385
- Drugs 382
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 63
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- RM2 5 residents
- 7,044
36 female, 27 male
Age bands in RM2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.1%
1,153 residents
630 residents
1,853 residents
1,811 residents
1,548 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RM2 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
39
within 5 km
WESTERN ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
99 WESTERN ROAD, ROMFORD, RM1 3LS
ODS code F82013
723 m
THE NEW MEDICAL CENTRE
264 BRENTWOOD ROAD, ROMFORD, RM2 5SU
ODS code F82021
1.0 km
ST EDWARDS MEDICAL CENTRE
7 ST. EDWARDS WAY, ROMFORD, RM1 3DQ
ODS code F82011
1.0 km
DR MARKS PRACTICE
107 BRENTWOOD ROAD, ROMFORD, RM1 2SH
ODS code F82663
1.1 km
NORTH STREET MEDICAL CARE
274 NORTH STREET, ROMFORD, RM1 4QJ
ODS code F82009
1.7 km
DR GUPTA
206 MAWNEY ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 8BU
ODS code F82610
2.2 km
INGREBOURNE MEDICAL CENTRE
135 STRAIGHT ROAD, ROMFORD, RM3 7JJ
ODS code F82648
2.2 km
STRAIGHT ROAD SURGERY
137 STRAIGHT ROAD, ROMFORD, RM3 7JJ
ODS code F82671
2.2 km
MODERN MEDICAL CENTRE
195 RUSH GREEN ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0PX
ODS code F82638
2.3 km
BILLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
58B BILLET LANE, HORNCHURCH, RM11 1XA
ODS code F82675
2.3 km
HORNCHURCH HEALTHCARE
58 BILLET LANE, HORNCHURCH, RM11 1XA
ODS code F82055
2.3 km
KINGS PARK SURGERY
HAROLD WOOD POLYCLINIC, COPSE AVENUE, HAROLD WOOD, ROMFORD, RM3 0FE
ODS code Y02973
2.4 km
EASTBROOK SURGERY
RUSH GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, 261 DAGENHAM ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0XR
ODS code F82039
2.8 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
RUSH GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, 261 DAGENHAM ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0XR
ODS code F82031
2.8 km
CHOWDHURY
OAK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE, 8 OAK ROAD, ROMFORD, RM3 0PT
ODS code F82045
2.8 km
THE GREEN WOOD PRACTICE
89 GUBBINS LANE, HAROLD WOOD, ROMFORD, RM3 0DR
ODS code F82007
2.9 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
219 HIGH STREET, HORNCHURCH, RM11 3XT
ODS code F82023
3.0 km
CHASE CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
13-15 CHASE CROSS ROAD, COLLIER ROW, ROMFORD, RM5 3PJ
ODS code F82630
3.0 km
LYNWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
2A-6 LYNWOOD DRIVE, ROMFORD, RM5 3QL
ODS code F82030
3.1 km
DR VM PATEL
9 GLANVILLE DRIVE, HORNCHURCH, RM11 3SZ
ODS code F82033
3.2 km
Showing 20 of 39 matching practices.
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Repton Avenue
BCT · Gidea Park
- 0.2 miles
Raphael Park
BCT · Romford
- 0.3 miles
Repton Avenue
BCT · Gidea Park
- 0.3 miles
Raphael Park
BCT · Romford
- 0.3 miles
Pettits Lane
BCT · Romford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Havering 014E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,722 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
- 0
- 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
Schools
96 open schools are in scope, including 62 primary and 17 secondary schools. Gidea Park Primary School is the nearest published school at 258 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5,160 published events cover 12 months, averaging 430 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,570 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.