Schools
122 open schools are in scope, including 80 primary and 14 secondary schools. Hopewell School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RM9 6FA
Barking Riverside · Barking and Dagenham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Barking Riverside
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
- Constituency
- Barking
- Postcode district
- RM9
- Postcode sector
- RM9 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RM9 6FA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2016
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RM
- Postcode district
- RM9
- Postcode sector
- RM9 6
- Latitude
- 51.524064
- Longitude
- 0.136853
- British National Grid easting
- 548,338
- British National Grid northing
- 182,736
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Barking and Dagenham · E09000002
- Electoral ward
- Barking Riverside · E05014055
- Parish or community
- E43000192
- Westminster constituency
- Barking · E14001073
- Output area
- E00000464
- Lower layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 018E · E01000095
- Middle layer super output area
- Barking and Dagenham 018 · E02000019
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 RM9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 122
- Primary
- 80
- Secondary
- 14
- 1.0 km
Hopewell School
Other independent special school
- 1.0 km
St Peter's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.1 km
Goresbrook School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,516
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 849
- Vehicle crime 319
- Anti social behaviour 312
- Other theft 194
- Criminal damage and arson 132
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RM9 6 residents
- 12,655
Age bands in RM9 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 24.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.5%
3,213 residents
1,665 residents
3,794 residents
3,108 residents
1,385 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
50
within 5 km
DR KM ALKAISY PRACTICE
URSWICK ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6EA
ODS code F82678
1.5 km
ST ALBANS SURGERY
URSWICK ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6EA
ODS code F82017
1.5 km
FIRST AVENUE SURGERY
2 FIRST AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM10 9AT
ODS code F82003
1.6 km
HEATHWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
BROAD STREET RESOURCE CENTRE, MORLAND ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM10 9HU
ODS code F82634
1.6 km
PRIME PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP
BROAD STREET RESOURCE CTR, MORLAND ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM10 9HU
ODS code Y01719
1.6 km
HEDGEMANS MEDICAL CENTRE
92 HEDGEMANS ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 6HT
ODS code F82015
1.8 km
DR BK JAISWAL'S PRACTICE
WOODWARD ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM9 4SR
ODS code F82025
1.8 km
DR M GOYAL'S PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH ELM LANE, DAGENHAM, RM10 9RR
ODS code F82005
2.2 km
AURORA MEDCARE
THAMES VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, BASTABLE AVENUE, BARKING, IG11 0LG
ODS code F82042
2.3 km
BEAM PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAM PARK HEALTH CENTRE, 2 HALEWOOD WAY, RAINHAM, RM13 8QZ
ODS code Y08371
2.3 km
JOHN SMITH MEDICAL CENTRE
145-207 BEVAN AVENUE, BARKING, IG11 9LL
ODS code F82040
2.4 km
OMNES HEALTHCARE LTD
234 PORTERS AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 2EQ
ODS code Y02575
2.6 km
HALBUTT STREET SURGERY
2 HALBUTT STREET, DAGENHAM, RM9 5AS
ODS code F82001
2.6 km
GABLES SURGERY
50 MARKYATE ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM8 2LD
ODS code F82642
2.7 km
GALLIONS REACH HEALTH CENTRE
BENTHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE28 8BE
ODS code G83012
2.8 km
DR DP SHAH'S PRACTICE
199 REEDE ROAD, DAGENHAM, RM10 8EJ
ODS code F82679
2.8 km
HIGHGROVE SURGERY
BARKING COMMUNITY HOSP, UPNEY LANE, BARKING, IG11 9LX
ODS code F82680
3.1 km
DR AA ANSARI'S PRACTICE
364-370 RIPPLE ROAD, BARKING, IG11 9RS
ODS code F82650
3.2 km
LAKESIDE MEDICAL
LAKESIDE HEALTH CENTRE, YARNTON WAY, LONDON, SE2 9LH
ODS code G83018
3.2 km
DR SZ HAIDER'S PRACTICE
561-563 VALENCE AVENUE, DAGENHAM, RM8 3RH
ODS code F82038
3.3 km
Showing 20 of 50 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
- 0.1 miles
Choats Manor
BCT · Dagenham
- 0.1 miles
Choats Manor
BCT · Dagenham
- 0.3 miles
Hindmans Way
BCT · Dagenham
- 0.3 miles
BRL Infrastructure Office
BCT · Creekmouth
- 0.3 miles
Hindmans Way
BCT · Dagenham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barking and Dagenham 018E, 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
6,862 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
2,516 published events cover 12 months, averaging 209.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 849 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.