# RM10

Postcode district covering Dagenham and Becontree Heath, in Barking and Dagenham.

RM10 is a postcode district covering Dagenham and Becontree Heath, in Barking and Dagenham. Median sale price £375,000 in 2025.

Postcode district. Code RM10. In: [Postcodes](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode) › [RM](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm)

Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an RM10 postcode. [How census figures are added up](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/population)

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £375,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in RM10 was £375,000 in 2025. Joint 674th most expensive of 2,235. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm10#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 41,887** (2021). RM10 had 41,887 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 391st most populated of 2,756. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm10#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 16%** (2022). About 16% of people in RM10 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm10#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 95.3%** (January 2026). In RM10, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm10#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=RM10) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 16% of people in RM10 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=RM10) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 272 homes were sold in RM10 in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=RM10) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for RM10.
- [Population by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=RM10) (Census 2021, England and Wales): RM10 had 41,887 usual residents at the census.

## How RM10 compares

Each postcode district against every other postcode district the measure covers.

| Measure | RM10 | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £375,000 | 6th cheapest | 20 postcode districts, RM · 2025 |
| Population | 41,887 | 4th most populated | 20 postcode districts, RM · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 16% | 6th most people in radon Affected Areas | 20 postcode districts, RM · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 95.3% | 5th highest | 20 postcode districts, RM · Jan 2026 |

## Is RM10 safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in RM10 at a rate of 107.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 94.6 per 1,000 people across the RM postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 379 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in RM10.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,729), anti-social behaviour (784) and other crime (707).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in RM10 was 105.6 per 1,000 people.
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.

## Deprivation in RM10, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so RM10 has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in RM10

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Barking and Dagenham 003A](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000034) | 1,575 | 69.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 006A](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000033) | 1,543 | 96.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 006B](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000060) | 2,180 | 132.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 006C](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000061) | 1,925 | 160.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.8% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 006D](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000062) | 2,218 | 93.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 006E](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000064) | 2,296 | 69.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.1% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 009A](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000015) | 2,418 | 60.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.5% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 009B](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000016) | 1,851 | 65.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.3% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 009D](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000018) | 1,776 | 39.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 010A](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000035) | 1,859 | 116.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.2% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 010B](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000036) | 1,470 | 205.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 010C](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000107) | 1,786 | 46.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 010D](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000108) | 1,915 | 78.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.3% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 013E](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000085) | 1,646 | 100.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.4% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 014A](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000103) | 1,773 | 83.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.6% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 014B](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000104) | 1,915 | 87.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.6% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 014C](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000105) | 2,332 | 244.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 75.1% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 014D](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000106) | 2,207 | 122.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.5% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 020B](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000087) | 1,636 | 239.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.7% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 020C](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000088) | 1,975 | 77.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 020D](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000089) | 1,824 | 27.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Barking and Dagenham 020E](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/neighbourhood/e01000090) | 1,707 | 186.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.7% |

## Your MP

- [Dagenham and Rainham](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/dagenham-and-rainham): Margaret Mullane (Labour), MP since July 2024. 85% of the people here.
- [Barking](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/barking): Nesil Caliskan (Labour), MP since July 2024. 15% of the people here.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Middle areas in RM10

[Central Park & Frizlands Lane](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/central-park-and-frizlands-lane), [Dagenham Eastbrook](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/dagenham-eastbrook), [Dagenham North](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/dagenham-north), [Old Dagenham Park & Village](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/old-dagenham-park-and-village), [Rylands Estate & Dagenham Dock](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham/rylands-estate-and-dagenham-dock)

## Postcode sectors in RM10

[RM10 7 (198 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm10-7), [RM10 8 (213 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm10-8), [RM10 9 (172 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm10-9)

## Council

[Barking and Dagenham](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham)

## Towns in RM10

[Barking and Dagenham](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham)

## Postcode districts next to RM10

[RM7](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm7), [RM8](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm8), [RM9](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm9), [RM12](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm12), [RM13](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm13)

## Nearest rail stations

[Dagenham East (550 m from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=0.1660,51.5441), [Dagenham Heathway (950 m from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=0.1475,51.5416), [Dagenham Dock (1.9 km from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=0.1461,51.5261), [Becontree (2.4 km from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=0.1270,51.5403)

## More in the RM postcode area

[All RM postcode districts](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm), [Every UK postcode area](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode)

## RM10 in brief

RM10 is a postcode district covering Dagenham and Becontree Heath, in Barking and Dagenham.
About 44,037 people lived in RM10 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £375,000 in 2025 across 272 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 107.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in RM10 was £375,000 in 2025.
RM10 had 41,887 usual residents at the census.
About 16% of people in RM10 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In RM10, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Postcode district
- Code: RM10
- Postcode area: [RM](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm)
- Constituency: [Dagenham and Rainham †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/dagenham-and-rainham)
- Council: [Barking and Dagenham †](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham)
- Area: 6.20 km²
- People, mid-2024: 44,037*
- Neighbourhoods: 22
- Output areas: 112

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency, council, region and nation this postcode district mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[RM9](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm9), [RM7](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm7), [RM8](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm8), [RM12](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm12), [RM13](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm13)

## Latest updates for RM10

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/RM10

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm10, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm10#f-house-sales-median-price.

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Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/rm10