Rushley Close Grays, Thurrock

53 addresses across 3 postcodes (RM16), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40501154.

  • Sales: 46 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £355,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 15, E: 1).
  • Flood: 34 addresses on its postcodes are 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 D; Band D in Thurrock costs £2,255 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Grays, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 27 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 53 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stifford Clays Medical Centre, about 850 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 710 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 34 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20241£355,000£355,000£355,000
20233£391,000£387,000£480,000
20222£430,000£385,000£475,000
20211£327,000£327,000£327,000
20201£355,000£355,000£355,000
20191£350,000£350,000£350,000
20183£330,000£285,000£370,000
20161£425,000£425,000£425,000
20151£280,000£280,000£280,000
20142£264,000£253,000£275,000
20112£260,000£230,000£290,000
20102£219,750£217,500£222,000
Most recent sales (46)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Nov 202423 RM16 2BJTerraced£355,000
13 Mar 202313 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£480,000
13 Mar 20231 RM16 2BJDetached£391,000
12 Jan 202328 RM16 2BJTerraced£387,000
31 Mar 202215 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£475,000
31 Mar 20229 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£385,000
27 Aug 20213 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£327,000
3 Nov 202016 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£355,000
19 Mar 202026 RM16 2BJOther£495,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Feb 20191 RM16 2BJDetached£350,000
19 Dec 20184 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£285,000
16 Nov 201821 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£370,000
16 Nov 20187 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£330,000
22 Jun 201644 RM16 2BJDetached£425,000
26 Aug 201535 RM16 2BJDetached£280,000
17 Nov 201414 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£275,000
12 Sep 201413 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£253,000
2 Sep 201146 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£290,000
8 Apr 20111 RM16 2BJDetached£230,000
24 Sep 20107 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£217,500
27 Aug 20109 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£222,000
27 Oct 200928 RM16 2BJTerraced£186,000
2 Apr 200949 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£180,000
19 Feb 200952 RM16 2BJDetached£263,000
15 Aug 20087 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£204,000
22 Nov 200710 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£260,000
23 Oct 200711 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£260,000
31 Jul 200730 RM16 2BJTerraced£244,000
15 Feb 20072 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£205,800
12 Sep 200522 RM16 2BJDetached£249,500
23 May 20056 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£172,000
30 Jun 200429 RM16 2BJTerraced£178,000
10 May 20029 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£148,000
20 Feb 200217 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£143,000
30 Oct 200125 RM16 2BJTerraced£115,000
29 Jan 19997 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£76,000
21 Aug 199819 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£84,500
19 Jun 199811 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£98,500
19 Jun 19985 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£78,500
5 May 19988 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£74,000
18 Oct 199628 RM16 2BJTerraced£63,000
30 Aug 199611 RM16 2BJSemi-detached£79,000
31 May 199635 RM16 2BJDetached£76,500
28 May 199646 RM16 2BJDetached£83,000
26 Apr 199622 RM16 2BJDetached£90,000
10 Jan 199629 RM16 2BJTerraced£64,000

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 dates from July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 97 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (14); House, detached (6); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (13); 1976-1982 (4); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19).

Council tax

What each band costs in Thurrock in 2026-27: Band D £2,255 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,503£1,754£2,004£2,255£2,756£3,257£3,758£4,509

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (70% of about 640 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), 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): 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 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 11 September 2026 to 16 September 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)

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, 26 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 5 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
RM16 2BJnot in 2 or 3 11 / 0 / 1 unlikely
RM16 2LDnot in 2 or 3 4 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM16 2QDnot in 2 or 3 11 / 8 / 4 unlikely

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 addresses are about 27 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
RM16 2BJ100%100%100%0%
RM16 2LD100%100%100%0%
RM16 2QD100%100%100%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 stationsGrays 3.6 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Chafford Hundred Lakeside 2.3 million journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Tilbury Town 1.1 million journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Long Lane Stifford Clays180 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Grays2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalTilbury Ferry Terminal5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksNcp2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station920 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY19.9 km (12 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN43.8 km (27 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stifford Clays Medical Centre850 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stifford Pharmacy840 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery920 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalThurrock Community Hospital380 m
Police stationGrays Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM820 m (0.5 miles)

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 gardenUnnamed 6,120 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 560 m²350 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,250 m²580 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Crop mark complex, Orsett, a scheduled monument, 910 m (0.6 miles) north. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Crop mark complex, OrsettScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) north
Dene holes in Hangman's WoodScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Springfield style enclosure and Iron Age enclosures south of Hill House, Baker Street.Scheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hangman's WoodWood940 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Terrels HeathWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Rookery HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) south
GrangewatersLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Little Thurrock MarshesWetland2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Northfleet HopeTidal water4 km (2.5 miles) south

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)14.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)14.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 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).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 555253

1 of the street's 53 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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 Thurrock: see them on the Thurrock 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
Deneholm Primary SchoolPrimary4–11370 m No published inspection
Orsett Heath AcademySecondary11–16720 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
William Edwards SchoolSecondary11–16930 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Stifford Clays Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Little Thurrock Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Hathaway AcademySecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Woodside AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Grays Convent High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Quarry Hill AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Tudor Court Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Blackshots General Store RM16 2LDRetailers - other160 m4 Good20 Sep 2026
Mistry News RM16 2LDRetailers - other160 mExempt
Prep2urstep RM16 2QHOther catering premises170 m4 Good29 Jul 2026
JTD Arts & JTD Nursery & JTD Creative Communities RM16 2QHSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
ASR Food And Wine RM16 2QSRetailers - other360 m4 Good14 Mar 2026
Essex Munch Box RM16 2QSTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m4 Good28 Feb 2026
Mayfield Ward RM16 2PXOther catering premises370 m5 Very good28 Jan 2026
Meadowview And Gloucester Wards RM16 2PXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good30 Dec 2025
Little Friends Pre-School RM16 2SSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Sep 2026
Deneholm Primary School RM16 2SSSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

34 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour11
Violence and sexual offences6
Criminal damage and arson5
Other crime4
Vehicle crime2
Other theft2
Shoplifting1
Drugs1
Robbery1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Blackshots Lane (20); On or near Highfield Gardens (6); On or near Cherrydown (5); On or near Ashley Gardens (2); On or near Brookman'S Avenue (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 707 residents in 269 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 age5140
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram9%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • RM16 2BJ: 51 addresses of 53 in the postcode
  • RM16 2LD: 1 address of 29 in the postcode
  • RM16 2QD: 1 address of 46 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Foxhills Road · Brookman's Avenue · Cherrydown · Highfield Gardens · Ashley Gardens · Jesmond Road · Kerry Road · Laird Avenue · Fairfield Avenue · Milford Road

All the streets in RM16 and across Thurrock.

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.