Barking Riverside
WardSouth Barking and Dagenham. About 11,979 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 4.4 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Barking Riverside live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Barking Riverside compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Barking Riverside safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Barking Riverside at a rate of 143.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 102.3 per 1,000 people across Barking and Dagenham.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 140 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Barking Riverside.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (477), anti-social behaviour (379) and other crime (260).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Barking and Dagenham
These figures are published for the whole of Barking and Dagenham, not for each ward, so they describe all of Barking and Dagenham and not Barking Riverside alone. See Barking and Dagenham
Barking Riverside in brief
Barking Riverside had 9,957 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Barking Riverside live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Barking Riverside, 94.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Barking Riverside, 8.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.