Schools
128 open schools are in scope, including 79 primary and 20 secondary schools. The Compass School is the nearest published school at 456 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RM6 6AX
Chadwell Heath · Barking and Dagenham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Romford
- Ward
- Chadwell Heath
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
- Constituency
- Dagenham and Rainham
- Postcode district
- RM6
- Postcode sector
- RM6 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RM6 6AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM6
- Postcode sector
- RM6 6
- Latitude
- 51.573038
- Longitude
- 0.146782
- British National Grid easting
- 548,867
- British National Grid northing
- 188,202
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Barking and Dagenham · E09000002
- Electoral ward
- Chadwell Heath · E05014058
- Parish or community
- E43000192
- Westminster constituency
- Dagenham and Rainham · E14001189
- Output area
- E00000560
- Lower layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 002C · E01000110
- Middle layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 002 · E02000003
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 RM6
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 315, High Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, RM6 6AX | 2 May 2019 | £285,000 |
| 313a, High Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, RM6 6AX | 8 June 2018 | £249,990 |
| 319a, High Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, RM6 6AX | 25 June 2010 | £100,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 128
- Primary
- 79
- Secondary
- 20
- 456 m
The Compass School
Free schools special
- 457 m
Warren Junior School
Community school
- 494 m
Furze Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,096
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,557
- Anti social behaviour 616
- Vehicle crime 415
- Public order 248
- Other theft 245
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- RM6 6 residents
- 10,578
7 female, 5 male
Age bands in RM6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.9%
2,335 residents
1,340 residents
3,384 residents
2,422 residents
1,285 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RM6 6 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+
- 90%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 90%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 90%
- Gigabit-capable
- 90%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 90%
- 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
50
within 5 km
ASHTON GARDENS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82686
467 m
THE UPSTAIRS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82019
467 m
LABURNUM HEALTH CENTRE
ALTHORNE WAY, DAGENHAM, RM10 7DF
ODS code F82051
1.4 km
MARKS GATE HEALTH CENTRE
LAWN FARM GROVE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 5LL
ODS code F82604
1.5 km
CHADWELL HEATH SURGERY
72-74 CHADWELL HEATH LANE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 4AF
ODS code F86028
1.5 km
BECONTREE MEDICAL CENTRE
641-645 BECONTREE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3HP
ODS code F82677
1.6 km
GREEN LANE SURGERY
872 GREEN LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 1BX
ODS code F82661
1.6 km
DR GUPTA
206 MAWNEY ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 8BU
ODS code F82610
1.7 km
GROVE SURGERY
200 CHADWELL HEATH LANE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 4YU
ODS code Y00155
1.7 km
TULASI MEDICAL CENTRE
10 BENNETTS CASTLE LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3XU
ODS code F82660
2.0 km
MODERN MEDICAL CENTRE
195 RUSH GREEN ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0PX
ODS code F82638
2.3 km
NORTH STREET MEDICAL CARE
274 NORTH STREET, ROMFORD, RM1 4QJ
ODS code F82009
2.4 km
EASTBROOK SURGERY
RUSH GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, 261 DAGENHAM ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0XR
ODS code F82039
2.4 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
RUSH GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, 261 DAGENHAM ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0XR
ODS code F82031
2.4 km
DR SZ HAIDER'S PRACTICE
561-563 VALENCE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3RH
ODS code F82038
2.5 km
THE OVAL PRACTICE
OXLOW LANE HEALTH CENTRE, 281 OXLOW LANE, DAGENHAM, RM10 7YU
ODS code Y01795
2.5 km
GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES MEDICAL PRACTICE
595 GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 9RN
ODS code F86034
2.5 km
ST EDWARDS MEDICAL CENTRE
7 ST. EDWARDS WAY, ROMFORD, RM1 3DQ
ODS code F82011
2.6 km
GOODMAYES MEDICAL CENTRE
4 EASTWOOD ROAD, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 8XB
ODS code F86087
2.6 km
HALBUTT STREET SURGERY
2 HALBUTT STREET, DAGENHAM, RM9 5AS
ODS code F82001
2.9 km
Showing 20 of 50 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
- 0.0 miles
Hainault Road Chadwell Heath
BCT · Chadwell Heath
- 0.1 miles
Albany Road Chadwell Heath
BCT · Chadwell Heath
- 0.2 miles
Whalebone Lane
BCT · Chadwell Heath
- 0.2 miles
Chadwell Heath High Road
BCT · Chadwell Heath
- 0.2 miles
Chadwell Heath High Road
BCT · Chadwell Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barking and Dagenham 002C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,154 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
Recorded crime
4,096 published events cover 12 months, averaging 341.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,557 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.