Schools
147 open schools are in scope, including 93 primary and 18 secondary schools. Mayfield School is the nearest published school at 195 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RM8 1YJ
Becontree · Barking and Dagenham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Becontree
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
- Constituency
- Barking
- Postcode district
- RM8
- Postcode sector
- RM8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RM8 1YJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2005
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM8
- Postcode sector
- RM8 1
- Latitude
- 51.562790
- Longitude
- 0.119809
- British National Grid easting
- 547,031
- British National Grid northing
- 187,008
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Barking and Dagenham · E09000002
- Electoral ward
- Becontree · E05014057
- Parish or community
- E43000192
- Westminster constituency
- Barking · E14001073
- Output area
- E00165805
- Lower layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 023F · E01032580
- Middle layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 023 · E02006799
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
- 147
- Primary
- 93
- Secondary
- 18
- 195 m
Mayfield School
Foundation school
- 246 m
Al-Noor Voluntary Aided Muslim Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 330 m
Goodmayes Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,000
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,550
- Anti social behaviour 833
- Vehicle crime 657
- Shoplifting 614
- Other theft 410
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.
GP practices
70
within 5 km straight-line
TULASI MEDICAL CENTRE
10 BENNETTS CASTLE LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3XU
ODS code F82660
382 m
GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES MEDICAL PRACTICE
595 GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 9RN
ODS code F86034
437 m
GOODMAYES MEDICAL CENTRE
4 EASTWOOD ROAD, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 8XB
ODS code F86087
871 m
GREEN LANE SURGERY
872 GREEN LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 1BX
ODS code F82661
983 m
CHADWELL HEATH SURGERY
72-74 CHADWELL HEATH LANE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 4AF
ODS code F86028
1.3 km
DR A ARIF
620 LONGBRIDGE ROAD, GOODMAYES, DAGENHAM, RM8 2AJ
ODS code F86040
1.3 km
DR SZ HAIDER'S PRACTICE
561-563 VALENCE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3RH
ODS code F82038
1.3 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
1.5 km
SEVEN KINGS PRACTICE
1 SALISBURY ROAD, SEVEN KINGS, ILFORD, IG3 8BG
ODS code F86637
1.6 km
OAK TREE MEDICAL CENTRE
273-275 GREEN LANE, ILFORD, IG3 9TJ
ODS code F86025
1.6 km
THE DOCTORS HOUSE
40 CAMERON ROAD, SEVEN KINGS, ILFORD, IG3 8LF
ODS code Y00090
1.8 km
ASHTON GARDENS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82686
1.9 km
THE UPSTAIRS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82019
1.9 km
GABLES SURGERY
50 MARKYATE ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM8 2LD
ODS code F82642
1.9 km
OMNES HEALTHCARE LTD
234 PORTERS AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 2EQ
ODS code Y02575
1.9 km
LABURNUM HEALTH CENTRE
ALTHORNE WAY, DAGENHAM, RM10 7DF
ODS code F82051
2.2 km
HALBUTT STREET SURGERY
2 HALBUTT STREET, DAGENHAM, RM9 5AS
ODS code F82001
2.6 km
THE PALMS MEDICAL CENTRE
97-101 NETLEY ROAD, ILFORD, IG2 7NW
ODS code F86009
2.7 km
DR BK JAISWAL'S PRACTICE
WOODWARD ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 4SR
ODS code F82025
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 70 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Mayfield Road Becontree
BCT · Becontree
- 0.1 miles
Green Side
BCT · Becontree
- 0.1 miles
Colinton Road
BCT · Goodmayes
- 0.2 miles
Burnside Road
BCT · Becontree
- 0.2 miles
Goodmayes Primary School
BCT · Goodmayes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barking and Dagenham 023F, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,925 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
7,000 published events cover 12 months, averaging 583.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,550 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.