Schools
146 open schools are in scope, including 89 primary and 20 secondary schools. Roding Primary School is the nearest published school at 140 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RM8 2LJ
Mayesbrook · Barking and Dagenham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dagenham
- 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 2LJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM8
- Postcode sector
- RM8 2
- Latitude
- 51.544095
- Longitude
- 0.118810
- British National Grid easting
- 547,022
- British National Grid northing
- 184,927
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
- E00000382
- Lower layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 012B · E01000073
- Middle layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 012 · E02000013
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
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Markyate Road, Dagenham, RM8 2LJ | 9 August 2019 | £305,000 |
| 2, Markyate Road, Dagenham, RM8 2LJ | 1 April 2019 | £314,750 |
| 1, Markyate Road, Dagenham, RM8 2LJ | 30 June 2015 | £245,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 146
- Primary
- 89
- Secondary
- 20
- 140 m
Roding Primary School
Community school
- 395 m
Dorothy Barley Infants' School
Community school
- 459 m
Dorothy Barley Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,772
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,907
- Anti social behaviour 594
- Vehicle crime 500
- Other theft 276
- Public order 256
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 37
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 3.7
- RM8 2 residents
- 21,196
23 female, 14 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RM8 2 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+
- 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
67
within 5 km
GABLES SURGERY
50 MARKYATE ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM8 2LD
ODS code F82642
190 m
OMNES HEALTHCARE LTD
234 PORTERS AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 2EQ
ODS code Y02575
306 m
JOHN SMITH MEDICAL CENTRE
145-207 BEVAN AVENUE, BARKING, IG11 9LL
ODS code F82040
740 m
DR BK JAISWAL'S PRACTICE
WOODWARD ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 4SR
ODS code F82025
744 m
DR A ARIF
620 LONGBRIDGE ROAD, GOODMAYES, DAGENHAM, RM8 2AJ
ODS code F86040
847 m
DR KM ALKAISY PRACTICE
URSWICK ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6EA
ODS code F82678
1.3 km
ST ALBANS SURGERY
URSWICK ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6EA
ODS code F82017
1.3 km
DR SZ HAIDER'S PRACTICE
561-563 VALENCE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3RH
ODS code F82038
1.3 km
HIGHGROVE SURGERY
BARKING COMMUNITY HOSP, UPNEY LANE, BARKING, IG11 9LX
ODS code F82680
1.5 km
BARKING MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
130 UPNEY LANE, BARKING, IG11 9LT
ODS code F82018
1.5 km
FAIRCROSS HEALTH CENTRE
51 UPNEY LANE, BARKING, IG11 9LD
ODS code F82027
1.6 km
HEDGEMANS MEDICAL CENTRE
92 HEDGEMANS ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6HT
ODS code F82015
1.8 km
TULASI MEDICAL CENTRE
10 BENNETTS CASTLE LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3XU
ODS code F82660
1.9 km
DR AA ANSARI'S PRACTICE
364-370 RIPPLE ROAD, BARKING, IG11 9RS
ODS code F82650
2.0 km
HALBUTT STREET SURGERY
2 HALBUTT STREET, DAGENHAM, RM9 5AS
ODS code F82001
2.0 km
AURORA MEDCARE
THAMES VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, BASTABLE AVENUE, BARKING, IG11 0LG
ODS code F82042
2.1 km
GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES MEDICAL PRACTICE
595 GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 9RN
ODS code F86034
2.2 km
GREEN LANE SURGERY
872 GREEN LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 1BX
ODS code F82661
2.2 km
BECONTREE MEDICAL CENTRE
641-645 BECONTREE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3HP
ODS code F82677
2.3 km
THE WHITE HOUSE SURGERY
12 MOVERS LANE, BARKING, IG11 7UN
ODS code F82612
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 67 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
St. Cedd's Church
BCT · Upney
- 0.2 miles
St. Cedd's Church
BCT · Upney
- 0.3 miles
Wroxall Road / Future Youth Zone
BCT · Becontree Heath
- 0.3 miles
Ilchester Road / Future Youth Zone
BCT · Becontree Heath
- 0.3 miles
Ivinghoe Road
BCT · Upney
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barking and Dagenham 012B, 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
8,025 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 8
- 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
4,772 published events cover 12 months, averaging 397.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,907 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.