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Barking and Dagenham
Local Authority · London, England · population ~214k · 62 state-funded schools
Cheap to buy into, hard to earn in. Barking and Dagenham offers the lowest house prices in London, a median home costing 9.6 times annual pay. However, this is a trade-off for the lowest weekly earnings in the region, at £754.10. Rent is also a significant burden, taking 51.6% of gross median pay, and the area ranks highest for deprivation in London. While school results are strong at 98.4% Good or Outstanding, this is a place for those prioritising affordability over career prospects and who can overlook high deprivation.
Written from the indicators on this page, 2026-08 data.
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How Barking and Dagenham ranks across 361 UK Local Authorities
Pay
£39,213/yr
Mid
Around UK average
House price
£376,000
Expensive
Worse than 75% of UK LAs
Rent
£1,687/mo
Very expensive
Worse than 89% of UK LAs
Council tax
£2,199/yr
Cheapest
Better than 90% of UK LAs
Crime
84.2/1k
High
Worse than 67% of UK LAs
Deprivation
32.8
Most deprived
Worse than 93% of UK LAs
Schools
98.3%
Very strong
Better than 88% of UK LAs
Colour shows quintile position against 361 UK Local Authorities. Green is the best position for someone moving here; red is the worst. Direction is set per indicator — higher pay, lower rent, less crime, less deprivation are all green.
Schools
60 state-funded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026
58 of 59 (98.3%) rated Good or Outstanding under Ofsted's legacy framework. 1 school is on the post-2024 report-card framework and don't roll up into the legacy total. How we count →
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62 schools · pins coloured by Ofsted grade
Grades, phase and pupil numbers for all 62 schools, sortable and filterable.
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