RM13 8LU Havering

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: South Hornchurch. Region: London.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Havering in 2026-27: Band D £2,425 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,616£1,886£2,155£2,425£2,963£3,502£4,041£4,849

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (49% of about 700 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 7 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 55 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 25 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 98%, gigabit 98% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsRainham (Essex) 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km
Dagenham Dock 425,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km
Belvedere 696,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m, 33 within 800 m; nearest Karen Close South Hornchurch100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lakeside8.1 km
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth4.6 km
Car parksNcp940 m
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km; nearest Cherry Tree Lane610 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY9.1 km
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN40.0 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Harlow Road Surgery680 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy640 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest South Honchurch Clinic840 m
HospitalGrays Court Community Hospital2.2 km
Police stationDagenham Police Station2.4 km
Cash machinesPayzone840 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenBeam Valley Country Park 40 ha950 m
Play area5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 530 m²460 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 4.2 ha300 m
AllotmentsBretons Farm Allotments 2.9 ha1.1 km

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 348 residents in 133 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age4640
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus19%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 6 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Philip Road.