Property market
The five-year median is £375,000 from 5 recorded sales in RM5 3YB. 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.
RM5 3YB
Havering-atte-Bower · Havering · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RM5 3YB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM5
- Postcode sector
- RM5 3
- Latitude
- 51.604529
- Longitude
- 0.177223
- British National Grid easting
- 550,872
- British National Grid northing
- 191,766
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Havering · E09000016
- Electoral ward
- Havering-atte-Bower · E05013974
- Parish or community
- E43000206
- Westminster constituency
- Romford · E14001448
- Output area
- E00166794
- Lower layer super output area
- Havering 003B · E01002303
- Middle layer super output area
- Havering 003 · E02000466
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 RM5
Property
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Merlin Close, Romford, RM5 3YB | 9 January 2026 | £320,000 |
| 8, Merlin Close, Romford, RM5 3YB | 10 November 2023 | £412,000 |
| 12, Merlin Close, Romford, RM5 3YB | 25 February 2022 | £382,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 70
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 11
- 283 m
Bower Park Academy
Academy converter
- 483 m
Immanuel School
Other independent school
- 890 m
Rise Park Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,598
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 512
- Anti social behaviour 274
- Shoplifting 145
- Vehicle crime 136
- Drugs 93
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 27
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- RM5 3 residents
- 11,025
16 female, 11 male
Age bands in RM5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
2,244 residents
1,268 residents
3,002 residents
2,730 residents
2,205 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RM5 3 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
26
within 5 km
LYNWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
2A-6 LYNWOOD DRIVE, ROMFORD, RM5 3QL
ODS code F82030
958 m
CHASE CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
13-15 CHASE CROSS ROAD, COLLIER ROW, ROMFORD, RM5 3PJ
ODS code F82630
991 m
NORTH STREET MEDICAL CARE
274 NORTH STREET, ROMFORD, RM1 4QJ
ODS code F82009
2.1 km
INGREBOURNE MEDICAL CENTRE
135 STRAIGHT ROAD, ROMFORD, RM3 7JJ
ODS code F82648
2.4 km
STRAIGHT ROAD SURGERY
137 STRAIGHT ROAD, ROMFORD, RM3 7JJ
ODS code F82671
2.4 km
DR GUPTA
206 MAWNEY ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 8BU
ODS code F82610
2.6 km
ST EDWARDS MEDICAL CENTRE
7 ST. EDWARDS WAY, ROMFORD, RM1 3DQ
ODS code F82011
2.7 km
WESTERN ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
99 WESTERN ROAD, ROMFORD, RM1 3LS
ODS code F82013
2.9 km
ABBAMOOR SURGERY
HEALTH CENTRE, GOOSHAYS DRIVE, HAROLD HILL, ROMFORD, RM3 9SU
ODS code F82670
3.3 km
CENTRAL PARK SURGERY
HAROLD HILL HEALTH CENTRE, GOOSHAYS DRIVE, HAROLD HILL, ROMFORD, RM3 9SU
ODS code F82016
3.3 km
THE ROBINS SURGERY, HAROLD HILL HEALTH C
GOOSHAYS DRIVE, HAROLD HILL, ROMFORD, RM3 9SU
ODS code Y00312
3.3 km
THE SAHEECHA'S PRACTICES
HEALTH CENTRE, GOOSHAYS DRIVE, HAROLD HILL, ROMFORD, RM3 9SU
ODS code F82014
3.3 km
MARKS GATE HEALTH CENTRE
LAWN FARM GROVE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 5LL
ODS code F82604
3.6 km
KINGS PARK SURGERY
HAROLD WOOD POLYCLINIC, COPSE AVENUE, HAROLD WOOD, ROMFORD, RM3 0FE
ODS code Y02973
3.6 km
DR MARKS PRACTICE
107 BRENTWOOD ROAD, ROMFORD, RM1 2SH
ODS code F82663
3.7 km
THE NEW MEDICAL CENTRE
264 BRENTWOOD ROAD, ROMFORD, RM2 5SU
ODS code F82021
3.8 km
PETERSFIELD SURGERY
70 PETERSFIELD AVENUE, HAROLD HILL, ROMFORD, RM3 9PD
ODS code F82010
3.9 km
THE GREEN WOOD PRACTICE
89 GUBBINS LANE, HAROLD WOOD, ROMFORD, RM3 0DR
ODS code F82007
4.0 km
CHOWDHURY
OAK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE, 8 OAK ROAD, ROMFORD, RM3 0PT
ODS code F82045
4.2 km
ASHTON GARDENS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82686
4.3 km
Showing 20 of 26 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
- 0.1 miles
Avelon Road
BCT · Chase Cross
- 0.1 miles
Chase Cross
BCT · Chase Cross
- 0.1 miles
Merlin Road (RM5)
BCT · Chase Cross
- 0.1 miles
Merlin Road (RM5)
BCT · Chase Cross
- 0.1 miles
Chase Cross
BCT · Chase Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Havering 003B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,970 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 4
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
70 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 11 secondary schools. Bower Park Academy is the nearest published school at 283 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,598 published events cover 12 months, averaging 133.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 512 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.