Schools
149 open schools are in scope, including 93 primary and 19 secondary schools. Roding Primary School is the nearest published school at 298 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RM8 2BP
Mayesbrook · Barking and Dagenham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Mayesbrook
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
- Constituency
- Barking
- Postcode district
- RM8
- Postcode sector
- RM8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RM8 2BP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM8
- Postcode sector
- RM8 2
- Latitude
- 51.543011
- Longitude
- 0.115558
- British National Grid easting
- 546,800
- British National Grid northing
- 184,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Barking and Dagenham · E09000002
- Electoral ward
- Mayesbrook · E05014065
- Parish or community
- E43000192
- Westminster constituency
- Barking · E14001073
- Output area
- E00000381
- Lower layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 017E · E01000072
- Middle layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 017 · E02000018
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
- 149
- Primary
- 93
- Secondary
- 19
- 298 m
Roding Primary School
Community school
- 435 m
Dorothy Barley Infants' School
Community school
- 495 m
Dorothy Barley Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,856
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,899
- Anti social behaviour 579
- Vehicle crime 509
- Other theft 287
- Public order 267
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RM8 2 residents
- 21,196
Age bands in RM8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 25.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.7%
5,477 residents
2,871 residents
6,636 residents
4,746 residents
1,648 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
67
within 5 km straight-line
GABLES SURGERY
50 MARKYATE ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM8 2LD
ODS code F82642
340 m
JOHN SMITH MEDICAL CENTRE
145-207 BEVAN AVENUE, BARKING, IG11 9LL
ODS code F82040
515 m
OMNES HEALTHCARE LTD
234 PORTERS AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 2EQ
ODS code Y02575
561 m
DR BK JAISWAL'S PRACTICE
WOODWARD ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 4SR
ODS code F82025
833 m
DR A ARIF
620 LONGBRIDGE ROAD, GOODMAYES, DAGENHAM, RM8 2AJ
ODS code F86040
933 m
HIGHGROVE SURGERY
BARKING COMMUNITY HOSP, UPNEY LANE, BARKING, IG11 9LX
ODS code F82680
1.3 km
BARKING MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
130 UPNEY LANE, BARKING, IG11 9LT
ODS code F82018
1.3 km
FAIRCROSS HEALTH CENTRE
51 UPNEY LANE, BARKING, IG11 9LD
ODS code F82027
1.3 km
DR KM ALKAISY PRACTICE
URSWICK ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6EA
ODS code F82678
1.4 km
ST ALBANS SURGERY
URSWICK ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6EA
ODS code F82017
1.4 km
DR SZ HAIDER'S PRACTICE
561-563 VALENCE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3RH
ODS code F82038
1.5 km
DR AA ANSARI'S PRACTICE
364-370 RIPPLE ROAD, BARKING, IG11 9RS
ODS code F82650
1.7 km
AURORA MEDCARE
THAMES VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, BASTABLE AVENUE, BARKING, IG11 0LG
ODS code F82042
1.9 km
HEDGEMANS MEDICAL CENTRE
92 HEDGEMANS ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6HT
ODS code F82015
2.0 km
TULASI MEDICAL CENTRE
10 BENNETTS CASTLE LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3XU
ODS code F82660
2.1 km
THE WHITE HOUSE SURGERY
12 MOVERS LANE, BARKING, IG11 7UN
ODS code F82612
2.1 km
HALBUTT STREET SURGERY
2 HALBUTT STREET, DAGENHAM, RM9 5AS
ODS code F82001
2.2 km
SALISBURY AVENUE SURGERY
7 SALISBURY AVENUE, BARKING, IG11 9XQ
ODS code F82647
2.3 km
GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES MEDICAL PRACTICE
595 GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 9RN
ODS code F86034
2.3 km
OAK TREE MEDICAL CENTRE
273-275 GREEN LANE, ILFORD, IG3 9TJ
ODS code F86025
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 67 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St. Cedd's Church
BCT · Upney
- 0.1 miles
St. Cedd's Church
BCT · Upney
- 0.1 miles
Porters Avenue
BCT · Upney
- 0.2 miles
Porters Avenue
BCT · Upney
- 0.3 miles
Ivinghoe Road
BCT · Upney
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barking and Dagenham 017E, 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
5,523 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
4,856 published events cover 12 months, averaging 404.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,899 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.