Schools
141 open schools are in scope, including 89 primary and 18 secondary schools. Valence Primary School is the nearest published school at 32 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RM8 3AR
Valence · Barking and Dagenham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Valence
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
- Constituency
- Dagenham and Rainham
- Postcode district
- RM8
- Postcode sector
- RM8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RM8 3AR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM8
- Postcode sector
- RM8 3
- Latitude
- 51.558221
- Longitude
- 0.132278
- British National Grid easting
- 547,910
- British National Grid northing
- 186,525
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Barking and Dagenham · E09000002
- Electoral ward
- Valence · E05014069
- Parish or community
- E43000192
- Westminster constituency
- Dagenham and Rainham · E14001189
- Output area
- E00000502
- Lower layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 007G · E01000102
- Middle layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 007 · E02000008
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
- 141
- Primary
- 89
- Secondary
- 18
- 32 m
Valence Primary School
Community school
- 512 m
Henry Green Primary School
Community school
- 583 m
Grafton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,336
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,367
- Anti social behaviour 809
- Vehicle crime 640
- Other theft 382
- Public order 358
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RM8 3 residents
- 13,411
Age bands in RM8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 25%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.4%
3,353 residents
1,655 residents
3,868 residents
3,283 residents
1,268 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
66
within 5 km
GREEN LANE SURGERY
872 GREEN LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 1BX
ODS code F82661
358 m
DR SZ HAIDER'S PRACTICE
561-563 VALENCE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3RH
ODS code F82038
582 m
TULASI MEDICAL CENTRE
10 BENNETTS CASTLE LANE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3XU
ODS code F82660
621 m
BECONTREE MEDICAL CENTRE
641-645 BECONTREE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3HP
ODS code F82677
625 m
LABURNUM HEALTH CENTRE
ALTHORNE WAY, DAGENHAM, RM10 7DF
ODS code F82051
1.3 km
DR A ARIF
620 LONGBRIDGE ROAD, GOODMAYES, DAGENHAM, RM8 2AJ
ODS code F86040
1.4 km
GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES MEDICAL PRACTICE
595 GREEN LANE, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 9RN
ODS code F86034
1.4 km
OMNES HEALTHCARE LTD
234 PORTERS AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 2EQ
ODS code Y02575
1.6 km
HALBUTT STREET SURGERY
2 HALBUTT STREET, DAGENHAM, RM9 5AS
ODS code F82001
1.6 km
GABLES SURGERY
50 MARKYATE ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM8 2LD
ODS code F82642
1.7 km
CHADWELL HEATH SURGERY
72-74 CHADWELL HEATH LANE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 4AF
ODS code F86028
1.8 km
ASHTON GARDENS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82686
1.8 km
THE UPSTAIRS SURGERY
ASHTON GARDENS, ROMFORD, RM6 6RT
ODS code F82019
1.8 km
GOODMAYES MEDICAL CENTRE
4 EASTWOOD ROAD, GOODMAYES, ILFORD, IG3 8XB
ODS code F86087
1.9 km
THE OVAL PRACTICE
OXLOW LANE HEALTH CENTRE, 281 OXLOW LANE, DAGENHAM, RM10 7YU
ODS code Y01795
2.0 km
GROVE SURGERY
200 CHADWELL HEATH LANE, CHADWELL HEATH, ROMFORD, RM6 4YU
ODS code Y00155
2.1 km
HEDGEMANS MEDICAL CENTRE
92 HEDGEMANS ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6HT
ODS code F82015
2.2 km
DR BK JAISWAL'S PRACTICE
WOODWARD ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 4SR
ODS code F82025
2.2 km
DR KM ALKAISY PRACTICE
URSWICK ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6EA
ODS code F82678
2.4 km
ST ALBANS SURGERY
URSWICK ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6EA
ODS code F82017
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 66 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Becontree Avenue
BCT · Becontree
- 0.1 miles
Becontree Avenue
BCT · Becontree
- 0.2 miles
Lindisfarne Road
BCT · Becontree
- 0.2 miles
Lindisfarne Road
BCT · Becontree
- 0.2 miles
Valence Avenue
BCT · Becontree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barking and Dagenham 007G, 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
6,771 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- 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
6,336 published events cover 12 months, averaging 528 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,367 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.