Schools
130 open schools are in scope, including 82 primary and 19 secondary schools. Furze Infant School is the nearest published school at 345 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RM6 6EE
Whalebone · Barking and Dagenham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whalebone
- 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 6EE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM6
- Postcode sector
- RM6 6
- Latitude
- 51.572389
- Longitude
- 0.144875
- British National Grid easting
- 548,737
- British National Grid northing
- 188,126
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Barking and Dagenham · E09000002
- Electoral ward
- Whalebone · E05014071
- 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
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 130
- Primary
- 82
- Secondary
- 19
- 345 m
Furze Infant School
Community school
- 457 m
Warren Junior School
Community school
- 555 m
The Warren School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,147
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,618
- Anti social behaviour 601
- Vehicle crime 425
- Public order 246
- Other theft 239
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RM6 6 residents
- 10,578
Age bands in RM6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.7%
- 2,335 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- 1,340 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.4%
- 3,384 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.5%
- 2,422 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 11.9%
- 1,285 residents
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
52
within 5 km straight-line
ASHTON GARDENS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82686
360 m
THE UPSTAIRS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82019
360 m
LABURNUM HEALTH CENTRE
ALTHORNE WAY, DAGENHAM, RM10 7DF
ODS code F82051
1.4 km
CHADWELL HEATH SURGERY
72-74 CHADWELL HEATH LANE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 4AF
ODS code F86028
1.4 km
GREEN LANE SURGERY
872 GREEN LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 1BX
ODS code F82661
1.5 km
MARKS GATE HEALTH CENTRE
LAWN FARM GROVE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 5LL
ODS code F82604
1.5 km
BECONTREE MEDICAL CENTRE
641-645 BECONTREE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3HP
ODS code F82677
1.5 km
GROVE SURGERY
200 CHADWELL HEATH LANE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 4YU
ODS code Y00155
1.6 km
DR GUPTA
206 MAWNEY ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 8BU
ODS code F82610
1.8 km
TULASI MEDICAL CENTRE
10 BENNETTS CASTLE LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3XU
ODS code F82660
1.9 km
DR SZ HAIDER'S PRACTICE
561-563 VALENCE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3RH
ODS code F82038
2.4 km
GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES MEDICAL PRACTICE
595 GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 9RN
ODS code F86034
2.4 km
MODERN MEDICAL CENTRE
195 RUSH GREEN ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0PX
ODS code F82638
2.4 km
GOODMAYES MEDICAL CENTRE
4 EASTWOOD ROAD, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 8XB
ODS code F86087
2.5 km
NORTH STREET MEDICAL CARE
274 NORTH STREET, ROMFORD, RM1 4QJ
ODS code F82009
2.5 km
EASTBROOK SURGERY
RUSH GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, 261 DAGENHAM ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0XR
ODS code F82039
2.5 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
RUSH GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, 261 DAGENHAM ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0XR
ODS code F82031
2.5 km
THE OVAL PRACTICE
OXLOW LANE HEALTH CENTRE, 281 OXLOW LANE, DAGENHAM, RM10 7YU
ODS code Y01795
2.5 km
ST EDWARDS MEDICAL CENTRE
7 ST. EDWARDS WAY, ROMFORD, RM1 3DQ
ODS code F82011
2.7 km
HALBUTT STREET SURGERY
2 HALBUTT STREET, DAGENHAM, RM9 5AS
ODS code F82001
2.8 km
Showing 20 of 52 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 60 m
Albany Road Chadwell Heath
BCT · Chadwell Heath
- 133 m
Whalebone Lane
BCT · Chadwell Heath
- 137 m
Hainault Road Chadwell Heath
BCT · Chadwell Heath
- 195 m
Chadwell Heath High Road
BCT · Chadwell Heath
- 207 m
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
- 1
- 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
4,147 published events cover 12 months, averaging 346 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,618 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.