Schools
133 open schools are in scope, including 85 primary and 20 secondary schools. Furze Infant School is the nearest published school at 358 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RM8 1ES
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
- RM8
- Postcode sector
- RM8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RM8 1ES
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM8
- Postcode sector
- RM8 1
- Latitude
- 51.568314
- Longitude
- 0.141018
- British National Grid easting
- 548,483
- British National Grid northing
- 187,665
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
- E00000567
- Lower layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 002D · E01000111
- 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 RM8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 133
- Primary
- 85
- Secondary
- 20
- 358 m
Furze Infant School
Community school
- 892 m
Warren Junior School
Community school
- 947 m
All Saints Catholic School and Technology College
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,030
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,878
- Anti social behaviour 691
- Vehicle crime 489
- Public order 303
- Other theft 286
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RM8 1 residents
- 15,276
Age bands in RM8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 26%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.3%
3,938 residents
1,890 residents
5,025 residents
3,157 residents
1,108 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
59
within 5 km
ASHTON GARDENS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82686
604 m
THE UPSTAIRS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82019
604 m
GREEN LANE SURGERY
872 GREEN LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 1BX
ODS code F82661
928 m
BECONTREE MEDICAL CENTRE
641-645 BECONTREE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3HP
ODS code F82677
995 m
LABURNUM HEALTH CENTRE
ALTHORNE WAY, DAGENHAM, RM10 7DF
ODS code F82051
1.1 km
CHADWELL HEATH SURGERY
72-74 CHADWELL HEATH LANE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 4AF
ODS code F86028
1.3 km
TULASI MEDICAL CENTRE
10 BENNETTS CASTLE LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3XU
ODS code F82660
1.4 km
GROVE SURGERY
200 CHADWELL HEATH LANE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 4YU
ODS code Y00155
1.6 km
MARKS GATE HEALTH CENTRE
LAWN FARM GROVE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 5LL
ODS code F82604
1.8 km
DR SZ HAIDER'S PRACTICE
561-563 VALENCE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3RH
ODS code F82038
1.8 km
GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES MEDICAL PRACTICE
595 GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 9RN
ODS code F86034
2.0 km
GOODMAYES MEDICAL CENTRE
4 EASTWOOD ROAD, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 8XB
ODS code F86087
2.2 km
THE OVAL PRACTICE
OXLOW LANE HEALTH CENTRE, 281 OXLOW LANE, DAGENHAM, RM10 7YU
ODS code Y01795
2.2 km
DR GUPTA
206 MAWNEY ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 8BU
ODS code F82610
2.3 km
HALBUTT STREET SURGERY
2 HALBUTT STREET, DAGENHAM, RM9 5AS
ODS code F82001
2.4 km
MODERN MEDICAL CENTRE
195 RUSH GREEN ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0PX
ODS code F82638
2.6 km
EASTBROOK SURGERY
RUSH GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, 261 DAGENHAM ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0XR
ODS code F82039
2.6 km
THE COLLEGE PRACTICE
RUSH GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, 261 DAGENHAM ROAD, ROMFORD, RM7 0XR
ODS code F82031
2.6 km
DR A ARIF
620 LONGBRIDGE ROAD, GOODMAYES, DAGENHAM, RM8 2AJ
ODS code F86040
2.6 km
OMNES HEALTHCARE LTD
234 PORTERS AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 2EQ
ODS code Y02575
2.8 km
Showing 20 of 59 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
Stanley Avenue
BCT · Beacontree Heath
- 0.2 miles
Chadwell Heath High Road
BCT · Chadwell Heath
- 0.2 miles
Chadwell Heath High Road
BCT · Chadwell Heath
- 0.2 miles
Stanley Avenue
BCT · Beacontree Heath
- 0.3 miles
Warley Avenue
BCT · Rush Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barking and Dagenham 002D, 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
9,532 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,030 published events cover 12 months, averaging 419.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,878 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.