Barking and Dagenham
Barking and Dagenham is covered by postcode districts IG11, RM6, RM7, RM8, RM9 and RM10. It is in the Barking and Dagenham council area, England.
Every postcode in Barking and Dagenham, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 35
- At medium risk at worst: 38
- At low risk at worst: 357
- At very low risk only: 135
- Not on the at-risk list: 2,436
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 3,001 postcodes in Barking and Dagenham that ONS places, 35 have a home or business at high risk, 38 are at medium risk at worst, 357 are at low risk at worst, 135 are at very low risk only and 2,436 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.5462, longitude 0.1257. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
The postcodes at high risk
35 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 13 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. IG11 9JG, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 11 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. IG11 0BL, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 9 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. IG11 8JZ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. IG11 8PZ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Barking and Dagenham?
Homes sold for a typical £385,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 2,529 of the 2,914 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,118 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 565 of its 3,001 postcodes. It has at least 43 primary schools, 8 secondary schools and 5 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Goodmayes, 2.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Barking and Dagenham?
Homes in Barking and Dagenham sold for a typical £385,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,000 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £380,000 from 1,422 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £470,000 16 sales
- Semi-detached £440,000 116 sales
- Terraced £400,000 636 sales
- Flat or maisonette £235,000 232 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole IG11 district, Barking and Dagenham's main postcode district: a typical £350,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Barking and Dagenham: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Barking and Dagenham?
174 of the 3,001 postcodes now in use in Barking and Dagenham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 87 of the 1,422 homes sold in Barking and Dagenham were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IG11 district, 20%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Barking and Dagenham | Across the IG11 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 24 of 1,000 (2%) | 3 of 234 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 87 of 1,422 (6%) | 88 of 440 (20%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Barking and Dagenham?
Ofcom reports on 2,914 of the 3,001 postcodes in Barking and Dagenham. At 2,529 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 4 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Barking and Dagenham at risk of flooding?
565 of the 3,001 postcodes in Barking and Dagenham have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1,118 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Barking and Dagenham?
The open schools at the postcodes in Barking and Dagenham (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- The St Teresa Catholic Primary School500 m 230 pupils, 230 places
- The Sydney Russell School550 m 2,568 pupils, 2,670 places
- Dorothy Barley Infants' School600 m 223 pupils, 360 places
- Roding Primary School600 m 892 pupils, 1,218 places
- Dorothy Barley Junior Academy750 m 294 pupils, 457 places
- Southwood Primary School800 m 593 pupils, 630 places
- Manor Primary School1.1 km 1,135 pupils, 1,300 places
- The James Cambell Primary School1.1 km 602 pupils, 840 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Barking and Dagenham?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Barking and Dagenham is Goodmayes Rail Station, 2.4 km away in a straight line.
- Goodmayes Rail Station Railway station 2.4 kmCycle
- Chadwell Heath Rail Station Railway station 2.4 kmCycle
- Dagenham Dock Rail Station Railway station 2.6 kmCycle
- Becontree Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 650 mWalk
- Dagenham Heathway Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 1.6 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Barking and Dagenham?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Barking and Dagenham, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Omnes Healthcare Ltd Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2026 · Phone 020 8596 7850 250 mWalk
- Gables Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3667 5410 550 mWalk
- Dr Bk Jaiswal's Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2026 · Phone 020 8592 5500 800 mWalk
- Dr Sz Haider's Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 020 8592 9111 850 mWalk
- Dr A Arif Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3668 7497 900 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Barking and Dagenham safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 5,410 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Barking and Dagenham over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 446 September 2025
- 454 October 2025
- 408 November 2025
- 431 December 2025
- 386 January 2026
- 402 February 2026
- 488 March 2026
- 452 April 2026
- 534 May 2026
- 488 June 2026
- 457 July 2026
- 464 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: criminal damage and arson 208, theft from the person 139, shoplifting 111, other crime 99, possession of weapons 30, bicycle theft 18.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Barking and Dagenham?
- Council
- Barking and Dagenham
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Barking (1,806), Dagenham and Rainham (1,024) and Ilford South (171)
- Police force area
- Metropolitan Police
- Region
- London
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Barking and Dagenham
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Barking and Dagenham about council tax Council tax, on lbbd.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Barking and Dagenham
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Barking and Dagenham postcodes
3,001 postcodes in use in Barking and Dagenham, by district:
Those districts are in the IG postcode area and RM postcode area.
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Places near Barking and Dagenham
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Barking and Dagenham's £385,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Barking and Dagenham
- What is the postcode for Barking and Dagenham?
- Postcode districts IG11, RM6, RM7, RM8, RM9 and RM10, with 3,001 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Barking and Dagenham in?
- Barking and Dagenham. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Barking and Dagenham?
- A typical £385,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 1,000 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Barking and Dagenham?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include The St Teresa Catholic Primary School, The Sydney Russell School and Dorothy Barley Infants' School; secondary schools at its postcodes include The Sydney Russell School, Jo Richardson Community School and Goresbrook School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Barking and Dagenham have a railway station?
- The nearest is Goodmayes station, 2.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Barking and Dagenham?
- Ofcom reports on 2,914 of the 3,001 postcodes in Barking and Dagenham. At 2,529 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 4 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Barking and Dagenham at risk of flooding?
- 565 of the 3,001 postcodes in Barking and Dagenham have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1,118 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Barking and Dagenham?
- 174 of the 3,001 postcodes now in use in Barking and Dagenham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 87 of the 1,422 homes sold in Barking and Dagenham were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the IG11 district, 20%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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