RM9 6NT Barking and Dagenham

Live postcode, introduced June 2026. Ward: Beam. Region: London.

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

Council tax

What each band costs in Barking and Dagenham in 2026-27: Band D £2,199 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,466	£1,710	£1,954	£2,199	£2,687	£3,176	£3,664	£4,397

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (81% of about 900 homes).

A4%

B7%

C81%

D4%

E3%

F0%

G0%

H0%

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): HMO Article 4.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Former Ford Stamping Plant: up to 3,502 homes, permissioned (210 m)
Former Ford Stamping Plant, not permissioned (210 m)
Beam Park: up to 3,119 homes, permissioned (360 m)
Beam Park, pending decision (360 m)
GSR and Gill Sites: up to 707 homes, permissioned (440 m (0.3 miles))
A1306 Site NR11, permissioned (1 km (0.6 miles))
21 New Road Rainham - replacing STHH13 A1306 Site NR11, permissioned (1 km (0.6 miles))

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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Dagenham Dock 425,000 journeys in 2024–25	470 m (0.3 miles)
	Barking Riverside 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25	2.6 km (1.6 miles)
	Rainham (Essex) 1.5 million journeys in 2024–25	2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tram	Dagenham Heathway Underground Station	1.7 km (1 mile)
Bus stops	7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ballards Road Dagenham Dock	310 m
Bus or coach station	Bus Station Lakeside	9.9 km (6.1 miles)
Ferry terminal	Barking Riverside Pier Creekmouth	2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Car parks	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks	660 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points	5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station	550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	London City Airport LCY	7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Nearest large airport	London Stansted Airport STN	40.2 km (25 miles)

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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest First Avenue Surgery	440 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies	5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy	650 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest I Levitan And Associates	750 m (0.5 miles)
Hospital	Grays Court Community Hospital	1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police station	Dagenham Police Station	2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines	3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ford - Dagenham Engine Plant, Thames avenue gate 2 Cashzone	260 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha	790 m (0.5 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Beam Valley Country Park 40 ha	790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area	7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 100 m²	580 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George's Field 9,060 m²	520 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments	Unnamed 1.2 ha	1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 41 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the postcode's centre
Dagenham Breach	Lake or reservoir	480 m (0.3 miles) south
Halfway Reach	Tidal water	1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Hornchurch Shoot	Wetland	1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Cross Ness	Wetland	2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Old Man's Head	Wetland	2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Eastbrook Grove	Wood	3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	18.7	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	9.2	20	5
Particles (PM10)	15.0	40	15

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

No addresses here are in the mapped area.

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: 415 residents in 130 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 postcode	England
Median age	33	40
Children under 15	27%	17%
Aged 65 and over	10%	18%

Homes

	Around this postcode	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	52%	61%
Owned outright	28%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	12%	17%
Private rented	36%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this postcode	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	60%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	7%	6%
Retired (of adults)	14%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	2%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	19%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	37%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	22%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	33%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	10%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	53%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	5%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this postcode	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	30%	34%
No qualifications	24%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	6%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	74%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	6%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 3 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.