Axe Street Barking

1 address across 1 postcode (IG11), about 110 m long. USRN 19904035.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2006 the median was £205,000 across 2 sales.
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Barking and Dagenham costs £2,199 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 93% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barking, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Abbey Playing Field, is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 20.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Salisbury Avenue Surgery, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, with 12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 19% of households owned their home and 65% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 757 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20062£205,000£200,000£210,000
20051£196,000£196,000£196,000
20021£125,000£125,000£125,000
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Sep 200661 IG11 7LZTerraced£200,000
9 Jun 200693 IG11 7LZTerraced£210,000
18 Oct 200559 IG11 7LZSemi-detached£196,000
25 Apr 200259 IG11 7LZSemi-detached£125,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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.

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£1,466£1,710£1,954£2,199£2,687£3,176£3,664£4,397

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (71% of about 980 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 street; 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 street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 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)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 23 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's address is about 7 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
IG11 7LZ96%93%93%0%

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 middle of the street, 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 stationsBarking 13 million journeys in 2024–25430 m (0.3 miles)
Ilford 11 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Woodgrange Park 939,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBarking Underground Station420 m (0.3 miles)
Upney Underground Station1.6 km (1 mile)
East Ham Underground Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey Sports Centre Barking110 m
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Axe Street Service Road Car Park90 m
EV charging points24 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bobby Moore Way Car Park60 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY3.8 km (2.3 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR38.1 km (24 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Salisbury Avenue Surgery450 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thomas Pharmacy190 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbey Dental Practice150 m
HospitalBarking Community Hospital Cdc1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationBow Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM180 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 middle of the street 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey Playing Field 4.0 ha160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Greatfields Park 5.8 ha740 m (0.5 miles)
Play area25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 90 m²240 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.2 ha880 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsFolkestone Road Allotment Gardens 4.0 ha1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 9.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Fire Bell Gate, Barking Abbey, a listed building (Grade II*), 230 m west. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fire Bell Gate, Barking AbbeyListed building, Grade II*230 m west
Parish Church of St MargaretListed building, Grade I260 m west
Barking AbbeyScheduled monument280 m west
Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site8.5 km (5.3 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill PoolTidal water470 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Hand Trough CreekTidal water760 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Cuckold's HavenTidal water790 m (0.5 miles) south
The LakeLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Horse EndWetland2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Ham Creek WoodWood3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-west

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 middle of the street. 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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)20.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.9205
Particles (PM10)16.94015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
Under 55111

None of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Barking and Dagenham: see them on the Barking and Dagenham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11220 m No published inspection
St Margarets CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11300 m No published inspection
Gascoigne Primary SchoolPrimary3–11370 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Greatfields SchoolSecondary11–18500 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Greatfields Primary SchoolPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Northbury Primary SchoolPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ripple Primary SchoolPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Langdon AcademyAll-through3–16820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Eastbury Community SchoolAll-through3–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Nelson Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Oliver Thomas Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Uphall Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Victoria IG11 7LZPub/bar/nightclub50 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Mar 2026
Playaway Nursery (BLC) IG11 7NBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m5 Very good21 Jan 2026
Community Food Club: Food for Thought IG11 7NBRetailers - other60 m5 Very good6 Mar 2025
The Source - Pitstop IG11 7NBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m4 Good17 Mar 2026
Couleur Cafe IG11 7NBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m4 Good22 Jul 2025
Gifted Hands Catering IG11 7LUMobile caterer70 m4 Good27 Jun 2026
Romanian Traditional Food IG11 7LUTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m4 Good19 Jul 2025
Bless Barking IG11 7LZOther catering premises90 m4 Good25 Jul 2024
SLM Abbey Reception Cafe IG11 7HWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good26 Jun 2025
Iceland IG11 8EPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets130 m5 Very good24 Mar 2025
Suyahut IG11 8EUTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Jun 2025
Moon Fish IG11 8EURetailers - other140 m1 Major improvement necessary27 Dec 2025
Jehovah Jireh IG11 7FXRetailers - other140 m1 Major improvement necessary9 May 2026
Kennysmenu IG11 7FXOther catering premises140 m1 Major improvement necessary14 Oct 2025
KTC Barking Ltd IG11 7PGTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good31 Jan 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

757 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences187
Anti-social behaviour120
Shoplifting73
Theft from the person72
Other theft72
Drugs66
Public order48
Burglary31
Robbery31
Vehicle crime25
Criminal damage and arson19
Bicycle theft8
Possession of weapons4
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Police Station (160); On or near Shopping Area (143); On or near East Street (104); On or near Supermarket (80); On or near Vicarage Drive (74).

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 street's postcodes are in: 282 residents in 119 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 streetEngland
Median age3240
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)19%61%
Owned outrightunder 1%33%
Shared ownership10%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented58%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van9%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram34%4%
By any public transport, including bus42%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)65%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification0%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)58%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street 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.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • IG11 7LZ: 1 address of 36 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St Pauls Road · St Ann's Road · Ripple Road · Bobby Moore Way · Cooke Street · Clockhouse Avenue · Arboretum Place · Broadway · Vicarage Drive · St Margarets · East Street · Short Blue Place

All the streets in IG11 and across Barking and Dagenham.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.