St Margarets Barking

381 addresses across 9 postcodes (IG11), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19910317.

  • Energy: 323 homes have an energy certificate (B: 315, C: 8).
  • Flood: 37 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 C; Band D in Barking and Dagenham costs £2,199 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 98% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barking, about 650 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Abbey Playing Field, is about 390 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: Its addresses are 4 to 8 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 381 of its 381 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Shifa Medical Practice, about 290 m away, with 12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 940 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 6% of households owned their home and 60% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 465 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from December 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

323 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 64 m². Most common: Flat (306); Maisonette, detached (17). Built: 2016 (79); 2023 (77); 2020 (71). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (1).

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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 (63% 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 37 at medium risk and 52 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
IG11 7PFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 47 unlikely
IG11 7WZnot in 2 or 3
IG11 7FYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IG11 7YXnot in 2 or 3
IG11 7PAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 35 / 0 unlikely
IG11 7YTnot in 2 or 3
IG11 7HDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IG11 7XBnot in 2 or 3
IG11 7RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 5 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 381 addresses are between 4 m and 8 m above sea level (6 m on average).

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 7FY100%98%98%0%
IG11 7HD100%100%100%0%
IG11 7PA100%100%100%0%
IG11 7PF100%100%100%0%
IG11 7RN100%100%100%0%
IG11 7XB100%100%100%0%
IG11 7YT100%100%100%0%
IG11 7YX100%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 stationsBarking 13 million journeys in 2024–25650 m (0.4 miles)
Barking Riverside 1.2 million journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Ilford 11 million journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBarking Underground Station620 m (0.4 miles)
Upney Underground Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westbury Road Barking90 m
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Axe Street Service Road Car Park300 m
EV charging points22 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bobby Moore Way Car Park320 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR38.3 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 Shifa Medical Practice290 m
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mayors Chemist160 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Orchard Health Centre290 m
HospitalBarking Community Hospital Cdc1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationBow Police Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM430 m (0.3 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey Playing Field 4.0 ha390 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Greatfields Park 5.8 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Play area23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 360 m²110 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 9,400 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsFolkestone Road Allotment Gardens 4.0 ha1.3 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*), 530 m (0.3 miles) north-west. 11 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*530 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Parish Church of St MargaretListed building, Grade I540 m (0.3 miles) west
Barking AbbeyScheduled monument570 m (0.4 miles) 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 water660 m (0.4 miles) west
Cuckold's HavenTidal water660 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Hand Trough CreekTidal water740 m (0.5 miles) south-west
The LakeLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Horse EndWetland2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Manorway GreenWood3.8 km (2.4 miles) south-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 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
65 to 6912200
60 to 649300
55 to 5916600
Under 550381381

381 of the street's 381 addresses are 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 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
Greatfields SchoolSecondary11–18170 m No published inspection
Gascoigne Primary SchoolPrimary3–11200 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 Primary SchoolPrimary4–11250 m No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Ripple Primary SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Margarets CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Langdon AcademyAll-through3–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Northbury Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 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
Eastbury Community SchoolAll-through3–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Eastbury Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Oliver Thomas Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nelson Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Way 2 Save IG11 7PWRetailers - other90 m5 Very good25 Oct 2023
Westbury Food Centre IG11 7PRRetailers - other110 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Grub Club IG11 7PRPub/bar/nightclub160 mAwaiting inspection
Childville Preschool @ Gascoigne IG11 7PBRetailers - other180 mAwaiting inspection
ARP Chicken & Pizza Ltd IG11 7PRTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m4 Good29 Nov 2025
Mayors Dispensing Chemist IG11 7PRRetailers - other200 mExempt
Abbi Superstores IG11 7PRRetailers - other200 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Mar 2026
The Fish Inn IG11 7PRTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good27 Jan 2025
Golden Dragon IG11 7PRTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m1 Major improvement necessary27 Jun 2026
Taj Mahal Sweet Centre IG11 7PRRetailers - other200 m4 Good21 Jun 2025
THE FISH INN IG11 7PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m4 Good20 Dec 2025
Rivers of Joy IG11 7FNTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good11 Aug 2022
Barking Corner Supermarket IG11 7NYRetailers - other230 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Mar 2025
Tasty Chicken and Pizza IG11 7NYTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Aug 2025
Magic Doner IG11 7NYTakeaway/sandwich shop230 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.

465 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences164
Anti-social behaviour93
Other theft38
Vehicle crime38
Public order22
Robbery22
Theft from the person19
Drugs18
Burglary15
Criminal damage and arson14
Shoplifting12
Other crime5
Bicycle theft4
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (80); On or near St Ann'S (64); On or near St Margarets (64); On or near Westbury Road (48); On or near Mizzen Street (35).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 939 residents in 368 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 age3040
Children under 1529%17%
Aged 65 and over2%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)6%61%
Owned outright2%33%
Shared ownership35%1%
Social rented46%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)2%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van20%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram33%4%
By any public transport, including bus41%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)44%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)60%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)66%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, flat (lodged 16 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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.

Nearby streets

Salting Street · Ketch Street · Mizzen Street · Net Street · St Margarets · St Ann's · Westbury Road · Bowline Street · Jarvis Close · St Erkenwald Mews · Cooke Street · Ripple Road

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.