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On Goresbrook Road, in Goresbrook & Scrattons Farm
What it's like at RM9 6XG: every home that has sold on Goresbrook Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 5 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Goresbrook Road; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
28 of the 264 homes on the street are owned by companies.
The nearest station is Becontree Underground station, about a 10-minute walk (900 m). The nearest rail station is Dagenham Dock, 1.2 km away, with 425k journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Dagenham Leisure Park, 250 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (routes 173, 287, 687); 19 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 27% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 18 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Goresbrook School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 75% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Monteagle Primary School (1.2 km), with 3 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Goresbrook School, 350 m away; Attainment 8: 55.6 · 19.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Jo Richardson Community School (0.4 km) and Riverside School (1.4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Ilford County High School (7.7 km) and Bexley Grammar School (8.5 km).
It's a family area: 26% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Aldi, 800 m away, with Sunnys Newsagents closer still (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is St Albans Surgery (400 m), with Asda the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Becontree Barbers is 750 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen's Hospital, 5.3 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 8 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Vue Cinema is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Mecca Bingo Club the nearest pub (150 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 147 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 11% flats and 6% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 51% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
It's growing: about 598 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Goresbrook Park, 300 m away; for exercise, The Gym (150 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 17.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 6.4 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 40 km.
32 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Barking constituency: Nesil Caliskan MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 11,054 (30.3%), turnout 46%. Vote shares: Labour 45%, Reform UK 14%, Green Party 14%, Conservative 12%.
33 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near RM9 6XG →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Most households own their home, 20% rent privately.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Barking and Dagenham since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 264 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 3 of 197 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 42 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.9% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 84.2% | 86.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 7.8% | 7.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 8.0% | 6.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 35 min
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